Paulo Coelho Quotes 844 Quotes for Your Inspirational Journey of Love, Life, and Fulfillment

“Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”

Source: The Alchemist

“Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

Paulo Coelho Maktub

Source: Maktub

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128

Paulo Coelho Quotes about love

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”

“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.”

Source: The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Paulo Coelho Quotes about life

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 50.

“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”

Introduction, p. xi.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Context: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

“Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.”

Source: The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage

Source: The Pilgrimage

“What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.”

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

Paulo Coelho: Trending quotes

Paulo Coelho quote: “No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”

Variant: i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Source: Eleven Minutes

“We pretend to be strong because we are weak.”

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

Paulo Coelho Quotes

“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near”

Source: The Alchemist

“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.”

Source: Aleph

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”

Paulo Coelho book The Witch of Portobello

Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 152.
Context: You are what you believe yourself to be.
Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. 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. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.
Believe.

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.

Paulo Coehlo”

Source: The Alchemist

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

Variant: If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

“Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.”

E quando você quer alguma coisa, todo o Universo conspira para que você realize seu desejo.
Variant: And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 22; a variant of this has become attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen" — but no occurrence of this a statement has been located prior to in The Gift of Depression : Twenty-one Inspirational Stories Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope (2001) by John F. Brown, p. 56

“Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.”

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

“The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.”

Compare to the Bible, Luke 12:34 (For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.)(NIV translation).
Variant: Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128

“Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry”

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”

Source: The Alchemist

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“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.”

“The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist — perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time.”

Variant: When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises
Source: The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho book The Valkyries

Source: The Valkyries (1992), p.132.
Context: The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist — perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels. Disenchanted, the angels had returned to God's side, knowing that they could no longer impose their presence.

“Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come.”

“Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!”

Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
Aleph (2011)

“Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.”

Paulo Coelho's blog entry " My thoughts on S.O.P.A. http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/20/welcome-to-pirate-my-books/", 20 Januar 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2015. <br class="br">Context: As an author, I should be defending ‘intellectual property’, but I’m not. Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!

“What hurts us is what heals us.”

“Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.”

Source: Aleph (2011)

“Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.”

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.”

Source: Eleven Minutes

“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. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”

Aleph (2011)

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Variant: When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.
Source: The Zahir

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

“If you rely only on experience, you’ll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.”

“The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t.”

I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they’re talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.
Aleph (2011)

“If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. 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.”

In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
Aleph (2011)

“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”

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

“Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.”

“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.”

Source: The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“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 book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory”

“Collective madness is called sanity..”

Source: Aleph

“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.”

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

“Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.
Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.”

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.”

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.”