Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

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A Brazilian lyricist and novelist active since the 1940s, Paulo Coelho has long been a source of memorable observations. Paulo Coelho's observations on Love are as sharp as their thoughts on Time, revealing genuine breadth of mind. 36 of Paulo Coelho's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Love, Time, Success, Money, and Life. Start here and see if you agree: "You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."

“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.”

— Paulo Coelho

Love

All Quotes by Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

Great

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

— Paulo Coelho

Life

“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.”

— Paulo Coelho

Death

“Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.”

— Paulo Coelho

Communication

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

— Paulo Coelho

Good

“I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.”

— Paulo Coelho

Money

“I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.”

— Paulo Coelho

Love

“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

— Paulo Coelho

Work

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

— Paulo Coelho

Love

“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.”

— Paulo Coelho

Fear

“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.”

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Life

“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.”

— Paulo Coelho

Love

“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”

— Paulo Coelho

Beauty

“Music for me, it demands full concentration.”

— Paulo Coelho

Music

“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.”

— Paulo Coelho

Failure

“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.”

— Paulo Coelho

Great

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

— Paulo Coelho

Time

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

— Paulo Coelho

Experience

“When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.”

— Paulo Coelho

Positive