Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

“You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.”

“Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.”

“A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.”

“When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.”

“It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now.”

“Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.”

“Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.”

“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”

“You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.”

“A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.”

“It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights…”

“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”

“Life attracts life.”

“Before I die, I want to fight for life.”

“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.”

“People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.”

“All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning”

“You only need to hide if you’re doing something you shouldn’t.”

“I only invoked what you already knew.”

“If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange”

“If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence”

“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”

“In life's most significant moments we are always alone.”

“Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing; but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.”

“People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.”

“Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.”

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”

“If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.”

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

“Give yourself freedom to try out new things
Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.”

“Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them”

“Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.”

“A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.”

“Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.”

“Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.”

“People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.”

“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.”

“Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end.”

“They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.”

“I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you.”

“There is one great truth on this planet: 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…. The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.”

“I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness.
I woke and discovered that life was Duty.
I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.”

“They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.”

“And she already has her treasure: it’s you.”

“All life battles teach us something, even those we lose”

“When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.”

“Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.”

“YOU don’t choose your life; it chooses you. There’s no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on.”

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”