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50 Paulo Coelho Quotes That Will Soothe Your Aching Soul

When you're feeling lost, adrift or down, let Paulo Coelho's poignant words be the reminder that you need to keep going. 
Heidi Priebe
May 24, 2016
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Dreams, Extroverted INtuition, Life
“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
“If you only walk on sunny days you’ll never reach your destination.”
— Paulo Coelho, No Title
Tagged: Perserverance, motivation, Ambition
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Desire, Achievement, Love, Goals, Determination
“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
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Life, Challenge, Overcoming Adversity, Change, Failure, Bouncing Back, Resilience, strength
“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
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. ”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Pain, Loss, Longing, Love, Grief, Grieving, Death, Breakups, Moving On
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Loss, Pain, Leaving, New Beginnings, Starting Over, Endings, Saying Goodbye, Goodbyes, Change
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, History, Individuality, Importance
“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Fear, Love, Destiny, Listening To Your Heart, Life, Challenge, Change, Authenticity, Staying True To Yourself, Inspirational
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Loss, Identity, Being Lost, Finding Yourself, Finding Your Way
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Perspective, Adventure, Life, Choices, Optimism
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Life, Hope, Crisis, Crises, Change, Overcoming Challenges, Pain
“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Taking Risks, Failure, Advice, Judging Others, Self-Direction, Empowering
“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, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Loneliness, Love, Belonging, Being Alone, Pain, Grief, Loss
“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Love, Writing
“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
“Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die
Tagged: Sanity, Life, Conformity, Self-Concept, Mental Health, Mental Illness
“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die
Tagged: Adventure, Opportunity, Chance, Taking Risks, Taking Chances, Comfort, Comfort Zone, Breaking Free
“We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.”
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die
Tagged: Unity, Individuality, Interconnectedness, Life, Perception, Self-Concept
“Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.””
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life, Accepting Love, Change
“Love is like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he’s not there, you feel like an addict who can’t get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you’re willing to do anything for love.”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Love, Addiction, Relationships, Co-dependency, Fear, Co-dependent Relationships
“'Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.””
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Dreams, Idealism, Overcoming Obstacles, Challenge, Rising To Challenges, Working Hard, Working
“Dreamers can never be tamed. ”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Idealism, Dreamers, Optimism, Freedom
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: travel, Courage, Adventure, Bravery, Leaving, Money
“You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Blame, Success, Failure, Taking Responsibility
“If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Exploration, Life, Optimism, Destiny
“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil And Miss Prym
Tagged: Change, Making Change
“And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil And Miss Prym
Tagged: Good, Evil, Morality, Mankind