“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
Experience
“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.”
FailureAll Quotes by Paulo Coelho
“Music for me, it demands full concentration.”
Music“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
Work“When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.”
Positive“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.”
Love“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”
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.”
Death“I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.”
Money“Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.”
Communication“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
Time“Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.”
Age“Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.”
Love“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.”
Love“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.”
Great“In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.”
Great“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
Life“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”
Beauty“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.”
Fear“I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.”
Time“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.”
Love