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."

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

— Paulo Coelho

Life

All Quotes by Paulo Coelho

“Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.”

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Money

“Music for me, it demands full concentration.”

— Paulo Coelho

Music

“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

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

— Paulo Coelho

Time

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

— Paulo Coelho

Failure

“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

“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”

— Paulo Coelho

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.”

— Paulo Coelho

Fear

“Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.”

— Paulo Coelho

Age

“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

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

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Experience

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

— Paulo Coelho

Life

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”

— Paulo Coelho

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.”

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Great

“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.”

— Paulo Coelho

Time

“We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.”

— Paulo Coelho

Art