Paulo Coelho

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

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Paulo Coelho

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you’ll gradually get used to it.

Paulo Coelho

Learn to share your love with others, but keep part of this love for yourself.

Paulo Coelho

Learning how to write by reading critics is like learning sex by mail.

Paulo Coelho

Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

Paulo Coelho

Life is strange: people who know the least about you always have the most to say, suggest and criticize.

Paulo Coelho

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

Paulo Coelho

Listen to your heart, it knows everything. And remember, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.

Paulo Coelho

Loneliness, when accepted, is a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life. Don’t panic.

Paulo Coelho