Paulo Coelho Quotes

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

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

Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move.

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

I don’t go to parties in general.

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

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

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

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

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

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

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

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

We don’t need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated – but haters are losers. It’s not good to feed this aspect. It’s more intelligent to be constructive.

I hate to be smart.