Quotes from Paulo Coelho

You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.

The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched, but I can't move. I don't want to leave, because I don't know where to go

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

People who are on a spiritual quest don't think, they simply want results.

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.

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.

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.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.