The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life. — 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
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
Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the… — 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
In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tommorow, when the Sun rises, all you will have to say… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman.… — 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
No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives… — 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
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
We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good… — 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
In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation,… — 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
I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I recalled how much time i had spent fighting for something i didn't even want. maybe because i had been too lazy… — 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
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
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
They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time… — 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
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they… — 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
In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It's not important what we think, or what we do or what we believe in: each of us will die one day.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling… — 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
