Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Paulo Coelho

Hate

Work

Try

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress. "

" Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way. "

" 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. "

" The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe. "

" I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. "

" Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. "

" I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will. "

" We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. "

" I never say I am a guru. "

" I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Paulo Coelho

Suffering

Heart

" I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time. "

" When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. "

" The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens. "

" You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. "

" You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. "

" No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. "

Paulo Coelho

Looks

Eyes

" You should treat a muse like a fairy. "

" 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. "

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

" Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. "

" Today, writers want to impress other writers. "

" However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have. "

" 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. "

Paulo Coelho

Day

You