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."

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

— Paulo Coelho

Great

All Quotes by Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

Communication

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

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Money

“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

“Music for me, it demands full concentration.”

— Paulo Coelho

Music

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

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Life

“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”

— Paulo Coelho

Beauty

“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

“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

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

— Paulo Coelho

Love

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

— Paulo Coelho

Experience

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

— Paulo Coelho

Great

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

— Paulo Coelho

Good

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

— Paulo Coelho

Positive

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

— 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

“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

“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