Paulo Coelho Quotes

1. Love simply is. – Paulo Coelho

2. I hate to be smart. – Paulo Coelho

3. Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. – Paulo Coelho

4. To love is to lose control. – Paulo Coelho

5. What hurts us is what heals us. – Paulo Coelho

6. Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. – Paulo Coelho

7. Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. – Paulo Coelho

8. Nothing in this world happens by chance – Paulo Coelho

9. Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho

10. You are what you believe yourself to be. – Paulo Coelho

11. Your eyes show the strength of your soul. – Paulo Coelho

12. We pretend to be strong because we are weak. – Paulo Coelho

13. If I must fall, may it be from a high place. – Paulo Coelho

14. God always offers us a second chance in life. – Paulo Coelho

15. You must always know what it is that you want. – Paulo Coelho

16. Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free. – Paulo Coelho

17. It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory – Paulo Coelho

18. There is always a gap between intention and action. – Paulo Coelho

19. Go and get your things,’ he said. ‘Dreams mean work. – Paulo Coelho

20. To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation. – Paulo Coelho

21. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. – Paulo Coelho

22. If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free. – Paulo Coelho

23. No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up and show up. – Paulo Coelho

24. I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. – Paulo Coelho

25. If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you. – Paulo Coelho

26. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. – Paulo Coelho

27. How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. – Paulo Coelho

28. If I am really a part of your dream, you’ll come back one day. – Paulo Coelho

29. It is said that all people who are happy have God within them. – Paulo Coelho

30. Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did. – Paulo Coelho

31. It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary. – Paulo Coelho

32. Timidity puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them. – Paulo Coelho

33. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. – Paulo Coelho

34. Why is patience so important? Because it makes us pay attention. – Paulo Coelho

35. Those who never take risks can only see other people’s failures. – Paulo Coelho

36. Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. – Paulo Coelho

37. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. – Paulo Coelho

38. Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. – Paulo Coelho

39. The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. – Paulo Coelho

40. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive. – Paulo Coelho

41. Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. – Paulo Coelho

42. Behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. – Paulo Coelho

43. Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path. – Paulo Coelho

44. You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. – Paulo Coelho

45. Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. – Paulo Coelho

46. Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it. – Paulo Coelho

47. Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. – Paulo Coelho

48. So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. – Paulo Coelho

49. The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion. – Paulo Coelho – Paulo Coelho

50. ‘Someday’, ‘maybe’ and ‘if’ are very dangerous words that must be avoided. – Paulo Coelho

51. All battles in life serve to teach us something, even the battles we lose. – Paulo Coelho

52. You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you. – Paulo Coelho

53. People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. – Paulo Coelho

54. Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily – Paulo Coelho

55. It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. – Paulo Coelho

56. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. – Paulo Coelho

57. Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you – Paulo Coelho

58. Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily. – Paulo Coelho

59. Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you. – Paulo Coelho

60. I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body. – Paulo Coelho

61. Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart. – Paulo Coelho

62. People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. – Paulo Coelho

63. Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. – Paulo Coelho

64. When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. – Paulo Coelho

65. Don’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you. – Paulo Coelho

66. Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. – Paulo Coelho

67. Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs – but move on. – Paulo Coelho

68. No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes. – Paulo Coelho

69. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. – Paulo Coelho

70. Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. – Paulo Coelho

71. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. – Paulo Coelho

72. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too. – Paulo Coelho

73. People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same. – Paulo Coelho

74. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. – Paulo Coelho

75. Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. – Paulo Coelho

76. When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive – I’ll find love again. – Paulo Coelho

77. Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. – Paulo Coelho

78. Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes. – Paulo Coelho

79. Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. – Paulo Coelho

80. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. – Paulo Coelho

81. Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. – Paulo Coelho

82. And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward. – Paulo Coelho

83. Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. – Paulo Coelho

84. Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other. – Paulo Coelho

85. I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. – Paulo Coelho

86. We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery. – Paulo Coelho

87. When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself. – Paulo Coelho

88. When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple. – Paulo Coelho

89. The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens. – Paulo Coelho

90. At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. – Paulo Coelho

91. Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing. – Paulo Coelho

92. You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say. – Paulo Coelho

93. What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats. – Paulo Coelho

94. It’s only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work. – Paulo Coelho

95. Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don’t be afraid to be the best. – Paulo Coelho

96. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. – Paulo Coelho

97. I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. – Paulo Coelho

98. We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. – Paulo Coelho

99. We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. – Paulo Coelho

100. Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. – Paulo Coelho