Paulo Coelho Quotes About Passion

• When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 14, 2016

• Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sex, Passion, Play

• We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.

  Paulo Coelho

  Passion, Fearless, Knows

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 18, 2012

• When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use).

  Paulo Coelho

  Passion, Focus, Use

• Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Attitude, Passion

• Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Sleep

• In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The only people who can say they have renounced the fruit are those who, thus equipped, feel no desire for the results of the conquest, and remain absorbed in combat. You can renounce the fruit, but this renunciation does not mean indifference toward the result.

  Paulo Coelho

  Letting Go, Mean, Passion

• Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Thinking

• Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervour, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Real

• The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Passion

• I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

  Paulo Coelho

  Women, Passion, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 21, 2016

• The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

  Paulo Coelho

  Passion, Hatred, Curiosity

  "Veronika Decides to Die". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1998.

• Everything in your life can change except ONE: your passion

  Paulo Coelho

  Passion

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 07, 2015

• Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Passion, Interesting, Bored

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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