PAULO COELHO – FAMOUS QUOTES

PAULO COELHO – FAMOUS QUOTES

Paulo Coelho  - The Brazilian writer, is one of the best-selling authors of all time (The writer has sold an estimated 350 million books). His notable works includes “The Alchemist” , “Brida” and “Eleven Minutes”. His works are impressive with its simplicity and its philosophical elements. Paulo was a rebellious teenager and his parents committed him to an asylum three times. When he was 38 years old, he had a spiritual awakening in Spain and wrote about it in his first book “The Pilgrimage” then he wrote his second book “The Alchemist” which made him famous.

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

Ø Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

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

Ø Life was always a matter of weighting right moment to act.

Ø No one can lie; no one can hide anything, when he looks directly in to someone’s eyes.

Ø Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Ø The more violent the storm, quicker it passes.

Ø Every blessings ignored become a curse.

Ø One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Ø 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.

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

Ø I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

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

Ø If you are honest, people will cheat you. Be honest anyway.

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

Ø A life spent resisting temptations is a wasted life.

Ø Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.

Ø Don’t give up; normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door.

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

Ø You will never be able to escape from your heart, so it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Ø Beauty is the greatest seducer of Man.

Ø There are three things that a child can teach an adult, to be happy for no reason; to be always busy doing something and to know how to demand with all one’s might, what one wants.

Ø 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.

Ø When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being whom I am I found myself.

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

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

Ø When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us become better too.

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

Ø Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

Ø Remember that where ever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

Ø Conflict is essential to evolution.

Ø Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly and forgive quickly.

Ø You are what you believe yourself to be.

Ø If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule