Paulo Coelho

It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your success and failures are entirely your own responsibility.

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

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy the peace of action. You need action. Id have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed

Whenever you want to achieve something keep your eyes open concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly, forgive quickly.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

The more violent the storm the quicker it passes.

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Just because it's not what you were expecting, doesn't mean it's not everything you need right now.

Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.

If youre brave enough to say goodbye life will reward you with a new hello.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

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

Saying ˜No' does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ˜Yes' is not always a virtue

Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

If you are brave enough to say goodbye life will reward you with a new hello.

Dreams are the language of God.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

No matter how educated talented rich or cool you believe you are how you treat people ultimately tell all.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.

The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

What hurts us is what heals us.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

I hate to be smart.

Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy.

Stress, anxiety and depression are caused when we are living to please others.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things and only the wise can see them.

A child can teach an adult three things... To be happy for no reason. To always be busy with something. And to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.

It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.

Where there is loyalty weapons are of no use.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.

Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

Tears are words that need to be written.

Tough times test your valor persistence and ability to make decisions. They force you to fight for your dreams.

Don`t waste your time with explanations people only hear what they want to hear.

We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown.

I never say I am a guru.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Don't forget:beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Be fully awake if you want to dream.

MySpace is an addiction.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

If you want to control someone all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one each day brings a miracle of its own. Its just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does not from what he imagines himself doing.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

The reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become.

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means you dont have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

Its the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting