If you start by promising what you dont even have yet, youll lose your desire to work towards getting it. – Paulo Coelho
Ive 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
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. Its very simple. – Paulo Coelho
Id have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. – Paulo Coelho
Im 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
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 moneys not related to happiness. – Paulo Coelho
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. – Paulo Coelho
Music for me, it demands full concentration. – Paulo Coelho
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 can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. – Paulo Coelho
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. – Paulo Coelho
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. – Paulo Coelho
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. – Paulo Coelho
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. – Paulo Coelho
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. – Paulo Coelho
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity. – Paulo Coelho
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. – Paulo Coelho
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
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. – Paulo Coelho
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. – Paulo Coelho