Paulo Coelho Quotes
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
The alchemist, p. 141.
Variant: There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
“A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
Paulo Coelho book Aleph
Variant: Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.
Source: Aleph
“Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.”
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
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 78.
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
“You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.”
Source: Warrior of the Light
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
The alchemist uses this expression at p. 23, but it is one that does not originate with Coelho, though his work has popularized it.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Paulo Coelho book Aleph
Source: Aleph (2011)
Context: It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.
“People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.”
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
“You only need to hide if you’re doing something you shouldn’t.”
Paulo Coelho book Adultery
Source: Adultery
“If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Solitude
“In life's most significant moments we are always alone.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
Paulo Coelho book Aleph
Aleph (2011)
“A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.”
Source: Warrior of the Light
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
Context: 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 reach 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 it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.
Source: Veronika Decide Morir - Tapa Azul
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
The Old King, p. 22.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
“All life battles teach us something, even those we lose”
Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain
Source: The Fifth Mountain
Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River
Source: Like the Flowing River
Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
