Quotes from Paulo Coelho

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.

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

I never say I am a guru.

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.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

Don't think about what you'll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

One day you will wake up and there wonÂ't be any more time to do the things youÂ've always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy 2 c u happy...

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph.

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

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.