Paulo Coelho Quotes.
Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.
close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere
If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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.
You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.
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.
When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.
An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.
I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
It’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
