Paulo Coelho

However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

I am not saying that I am different, but I don’t have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain.

Paulo Coelho

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

Paulo Coelho

I am who I was and who I will be.

Paulo Coelho

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Paulo Coelho