Paulo Coelho

The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness.

Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory.

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; If we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyze us.

The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.

All battles in life serve to teach us something, even the battles we lose.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You’ve got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

It takes huge effort to free yourself from memory.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.

Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.

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

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

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

I hate to be smart.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Today writers want to impress other writers.

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.

I don't go to parties in general.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives, but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

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

I never say I am a guru.

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

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

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy and so I can communicate with the whole world.

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

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip, to avoid this the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae recipes or other people's opinions.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

I don't try to control my days.

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

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.

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

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.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day - my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer you do understand me also. We are in the same level.