Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

"“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”"
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"“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”"
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
"“No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.”"
Paulo Coelho The Zahir
"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
"In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity."
Paulo Coelho
"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."
Paulo Coelho
"However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have."
Paulo Coelho
"Beauty is the greatest seducer of man."
Paulo Coelho
"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."
Paulo Coelho
"When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple."
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
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."
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
"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."
Paulo Coelho
"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."
Paulo Coelho
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."
Paulo Coelho
"You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort."
Paulo Coelho
"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."
Paulo Coelho
"I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing."
Paulo Coelho
"Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species."
Paulo Coelho
"I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness."
Paulo Coelho
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