Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The only trap I must beware not to fall into, is to think that each day is the same as the next.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We are here because we are made by God, we will return to God. So people who think that they are something,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What made you fall in love with a prostitute?” “I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes. — 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… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person?… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
