I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“These young women are of great interest for medicine and moralists—small defenseless creatures who, because of feuding heirs, are sent here at… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
