Quotes by Paulo Coelho

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. Its very simple.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

“What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace”

“Fortunate are those who take the first steps.”

“Once you get into the desert, theres no going back. And, when you cant go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

“Dont waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You cant measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. Time doesnt pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; were always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didnt act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what were going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we dont want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.”

“The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.”

“Give time time.”