Zitat des Tages von Paulo Coelho:
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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.
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
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.
It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
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 lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
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.
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
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.
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
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.
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.