Paulo Coelho Quotes page 11 844 Quotes for Your Inspirational Journey of Love, Life, and Fulfillment

“To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.”

Variant: It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Source: The Alchemist

“Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.”

Source: Warrior of the Light

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

“Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.”

“Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.”

“I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.”

“She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.”

“I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.”

Source: Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

“The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness”

“Truth resides where there is faith.”

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

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.”

Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage

Source: The Pilgrimage

“It was all a matter of control. And Choice.
Nothing more, nothing less”

“You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal”

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.”

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.”

Variant: Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 167

“Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.”

Source: The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

“If Evil exists, it’s to be found in our fears”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

“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.”

“There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.”

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.”

“only the defeated know LOVE.
because it is in the realm of love that we
fight our first battles - and generally lose……..”

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”

“But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.

Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.”

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

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

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.”

“When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.”

Source: Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho book The Valkyries

Source: The Valkyries

“Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“really important meetings are planned by the souls
long before the bodies see each other.”

“The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.”

Source: Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

“Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.”

“JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.”

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.”

“Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.”

Source: Aleph

“I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.”

Source: The Alchemist

“You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”

Source: The Alchemist

“Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.”

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.”

Source: Aleph

“Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”

Source: Aleph

“You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.”

Variant: It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
Source: The Alchemist

“That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.”

Source: Aleph

“Now that she realized she had been waiting for him — she did not like that.”

Source: Warrior of the Light

“The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.”

Source: Eleven Minutes

“Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.”

Source: Aleph

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

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.”

Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage

Source: The Pilgrimage

“That's how love got lost… when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

“The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.”

“I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

“Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”

“The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.”

Source: The Alchemist

“Life is the train and not the station.”

Source: Aleph