Paulo Coelho Quotes page 5 844 Quotes for Your Inspirational Journey of Love, Life, and Fulfillment

“Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.”

“But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.”

Source: The Alchemist

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

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

“Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.”

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better."
-- The Alchemist”

“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”

Source: The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Uselessness

“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”

“Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”

Source: The Alchemist

“If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.”

Variant: Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Paulo Coelho Maktub

Source: Maktub

“No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.”

“Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present".”

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

“And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.”

Source: The Alchemist

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

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.”

“Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you”

Source: The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom

“There is always a gap between intention and action..”

Source: Economic Warfare Quotes

“If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.”

“You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?”

Source: Eleven Minutes

“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. It's your mission on earth.”

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”

Source: The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

“Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“All love stories are the same.”

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

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.”

“what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over”

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

“I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.”

“Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.”

Source: The Alchemist

“People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.”

“I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.
“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.”

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

“When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”

Source: Warrior of the Light

“What made you fall in love with a prostitute?”
“I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.”

Source: The Alchemist

“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”

Source: Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”

“If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

“You have to take risks … We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”

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: You have to take risks … We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist — that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists — a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

“Many people don't allow themselves to love… because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.”

“It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.”

Source: Veronika Decides to Die