Quotes from Paulo Coelho

The darkest hour was just before dawn.

Emotions are wild horses.

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

A miracle happened: another day of life.

Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.

Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later, when you don't have the energy.

Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.

I don't make plans. I live my life on a daily basis.

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

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.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.

Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart.

Leave your comfortable life and go in search of your kingdom.

Everything in your life can change except ONE: your passion

We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to

The only way to make the right decision is to find out which is the wrong decision, to examine that other path without fear, and only then decide.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.

I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.