Paulo Coelho: Quotes about life
Paulo Coelho is Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on life.
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.
Paulo Coehlo”
Variant: If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
“What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.”
Source: Like the Flowing River
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come.”
Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
Aleph (2011)
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.”
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
Source: The Alchemist
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym [O Demônio e a srta Prym] (2000), p. x; this has also been misquoted as "A moment is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny."
Context: When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“… and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.”
Source: The Fifth Mountain
“Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 167
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Introduction, p. xi.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Context: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: The Alchemist
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 50.
“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”
Source: The Alchemist