Poet Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

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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.
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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.
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.
I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
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.
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
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.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
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.
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.
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.
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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.
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
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.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
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.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
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.
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
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.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
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.

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