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

— Paulo Coelho

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All Quotes by Paulo Coelho

“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

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

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Positive

“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

“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”

— Paulo Coelho

Beauty

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

— 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

“Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.”

— Paulo Coelho

Age

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

— Paulo Coelho

Failure

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

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Good

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

— Paulo Coelho

Time

“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

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

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Life

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

— Paulo Coelho

Communication

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

Money

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

— Paulo Coelho

Experience

“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