Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

Source: Adultery

Source: Maktub

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: The Alchemist

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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

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.

Source: The Alchemist

Source: The Pilgrimage

Source: Like the Flowing River

Source: Brida

Source: The Alchemist

Source: Aleph

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.

Source: The Alchemist

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

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

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

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

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.

Source: Aleph (2011)

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

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

Source: The Alchemist

Source: Eleven Minutes

Aleph (2011)

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

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

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130

Source: Brida

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

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

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

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.
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!

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)

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

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Source: The Zahir

Source: The Alchemist

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

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

Source: Aleph

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

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.

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Variant: Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.
Source: The Fifth Mountain

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: Veronika Decides to Die