Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

“Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.”

“Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.”

“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”

“If I must fall, may it be from a high place.”

“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”

“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.”

“There is only one way to learn … It's through action.”

“God always offers us a second chance in life.”

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”

“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.”

“making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”

“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

“She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”

“It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.”

“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”

“Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.”

“Maktub,” she said. “If I am really part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.”

“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage”

“We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”

“Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.”

“… and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”

“But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.”

“I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.”

“In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.”

“She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.”

“Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”

“If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.”

“God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.”

“No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up”

“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”

“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”

“People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

“Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to
give up all the other important things.”

“So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.”

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.”

“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”

“Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.”

“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”

“Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”

“We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.”

“The wise are wise only because they love.”

“But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”

“The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”

“She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.”

“That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.”

“In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.”