Paulo Coelho Quotes

To believe in your choice you don’t need to prove that other people’s choices are wrong.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

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.

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 never say I am a guru.

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

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.

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.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

I am a Catholic.