Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school.… — 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
And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience… — 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
Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years… — 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
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for… — 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
As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no… — 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
