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Paulo Coelho Quotes

Total quotes: 619
“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
“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.”
— Paulo Coelho, Paulo Coelho Quotes
Tagged: Love, wise, stupidity, Understanding
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Dreams, Dreaming, Achieving, Life, Inspirational
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: heart, Identity, Listening To Your Heart, Trust Yourself
“The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Tagged: Comfort Zone, purpose, risks, chances, Inspirational
“Don’t give up. Remember, it’s always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.”
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
Tagged: Encouragement, motivation, Don't Lose Hope, Wise Words
“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
“The more you love your decisions
the less you need to convince other people to love them.”
— Paulo Coelho, via twitter.com
Tagged: Decisions, life decisions, life choices, Decision-Making, Self-Reliance, Self Confidence, Life, Motivational, Inspirational
“Memories always win, and with them comes a demon that is even more terrifying than melancholy: remorse.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Spy
Tagged: Time, Memories, Remorse, Sad
“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will - either by having nothing happen at all, or by having everything happen at once.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone
Tagged: Life, Challenges
“Every word leaves a memory in your heart – and it the sum of these memories that form sentences, paragraphs, books.”
— Paulo Coelho, The act of writing – the reader
Tagged: Words, Writing, Memory, heart, Books, Reading, Literature
“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
“When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Life, Faith, Dissatisfaction, Unease
“A Warrior of the Light knows what he wants. And he has no need to waste time on explanations.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light
Tagged: Certainty
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Dreams, Extroverted INtuition, Life
“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Spy
Tagged: Braveness, Fear, Moving Forward
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Perspective, Happiness, Optimism, Wisdom, Simplicity, Minimalism
“I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Love, Giving
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Waiting, Forgetting, Moving On, Limbo, Suffering, Pain
“Because the Warrior of the Light believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light: A Manual
Tagged: Paulo Coelho, The Universe, Positive Thinking, Miracles, Life, Love, Faith
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Tagged: Faith, Trust, Happening Future
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Living life, Judgments, Unsplash + QC
“Here I am, trying to persuade myself that I always give the best of myself, and nature is telling me exactly the opposite: anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
“Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown — even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.”
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“When we love, we have no need to understand what is happening, because everything is happening inside us.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Understanding, Internal, Feelings, emotions
“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
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