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Paulo Coelho Quotes

Total quotes: 380
“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, Fell In Love, Lost in Love, Surrendering To Love
“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Optimism, cycle, Negativity
“Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.”
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
Tagged: opportunities, chances, hurt, fears, Love
“If you’re brave enough to say ‘goodbye’ life will reward you with a new ‘hello.’”
— Paulo Coelho, Paulo Coelho on Facebook
Tagged: goodbye, New opportunities, Change, Moving On, Leaving
“We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Tagged: Dreams, Idealism, Idealist, Optimism, Soul, Inspirational
“Be ready to pay the price of your dreams. Free cheese can only be found in a mousetrap.”
— Paulo Coelho, via twitter.com
Tagged: Dreams, living & dreaming, Dream On, keep dreaming, reaching dreams take time, reaching dreams, journey to your dreams, Life, Life Is Hard, Inspirational
“They live as if they were never going to die, and die as if they had never lived”
— Paulo Coelho, What is funny about man
Tagged: Life, Living, Dying, Death, purpose, Reason
“Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel
Tagged: Life, Living, Change, Heaven, Hell, Fast
“Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: goal, desires, Life, purpose
“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Words, Tears, Joy, Pain, Sadness
“I desired to say yes immediately, but a lady of class does not act on impulse.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Spy
“I've realised that sometimes you get no second chance and that it's best to accept the gifts the world offers you.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Second Chances, Change, Acceptance, Accepting Change, Gratitude
“Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could...”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Tagged: Creativity, Art, Artistic Growth, Self-Expression, Self-Confidence
“Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Choices, Life Choice, decision
“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Tagged: Relationships, Love, Understanding
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Inspiring Quotes, Dream Big, Universe
“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, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving Love, Opening Up, Self-improvement, Self-Help, Self-Love
“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Lessons, Learning, Life, Progression, Moving Forward, Uncertainty
“The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahi
Tagged: Hatred, forgiveness, Love, Pain, Moving Forward
“If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Judgment, Judging Others, Energy
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Failure, Bettering Your Future, Achieve
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Suffering, Fear
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
Tagged: Youth, Child, Learning, Happiness, Innocence
“Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down a wonderful opportunity simply because we don't know what to do with it.”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Life, opportunities, Chance, risks
“Whenever we feel that no one is paying any attention to what we are doing, let us think of the pianist. He was talking to God through his work, and nothing else mattered.”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Work, Passion, Meaning Of Life
“We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Imagination, Reality, Illusion, Human Nature, The Split, Two Natures
“We are afraid of losing what we have.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist: A Fable about Following Your Dream
Tagged: Afraid, Fear, Losing, Loss, have, Posession, Gain, personal, Mindset, Scared
“Leadership is not a position or a title. It is example and action.”
— Paulo Coelho, via twitter.com
Tagged: Leadership, definition of leadership
“You don’t have to explain your dreams, they belong to you.”
— Paulo Coelho, Paulo Coelho, via Twitter
Tagged: Dreams, Motivational, Inspirational
“Of giving, even when I have nothing,”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
Tagged: Past, Imagination, strength
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.”
— Paulo Coelho, Paulo Coelho on Twitter
Tagged: Adventure, dangerous, Routine
“Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Action, procrastination, Starting, Killing time
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: travel, Courage, Adventure, Bravery, Leaving, Money
“Only a fool makes threat and only another fool feels threatened.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Threat, Fear
“Stop being who you were and become who you are.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.”
— Paulo Coelho, PauloCoelho
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust
“Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Tagged: Love, Loving, Life
“Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes – even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes – can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light
Tagged: Tragedy, Attitude, Perspective, Darkness, Pain, Suffering, Fear
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