Paulo Coelho Quotes page 8 844 Quotes for Your Inspirational Journey of Love, Life, and Fulfillment

“If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.”

Source: The Alchemist

“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”

Source: Aleph (2011)
Context: What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

“Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

“and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”

“it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be”

Source: The Alchemist

“God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.”

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

“Her silence was the blank space between the words.”

“Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.”

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

“You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.”

Source: Aleph

“If you never take a risk, you will never
know what changes you need to make.”

Source: Aleph

“Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”

“The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves.”

“A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would”

Variant: It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.”

Source: Warrior of the Light

Paulo Coelho Maktub

Source: Maktub

“Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.”

“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.”

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Defeat

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

Variant: It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.”

“Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.”

Source: Aleph

“What kills a relationship between two people is precisely the lack of challenge, the feeling that nothing is new anymore. We need to continue to be a surprise for each other.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”

“Learn to recognize omens, and follow them”

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?

“So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.”

Source: The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho Maktub

Source: Maktub

“What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?”

“The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.”

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

“Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.”

Source: Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

“Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.”

“God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of
this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.”

Source: Warrior of the Light

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

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.”

“Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.”

Source: The Alchemist

“That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.”

Source: The Alchemist

“Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so”

Source: Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

“Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.”

“We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.”

Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage

Source: The Pilgrimage

“Nothing happens by chance.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Variant: Nothing in this world happens by chance
Source: Brida

“What was broken will never be the same again.”

“Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain.
Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.”

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.”

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

“Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.”

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

Variant: Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing”

“About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.”

Source: Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.”

“LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.”

Source: Eleven Minutes