The Brazilian author Paulo Coelho was born in 24 August 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel The Alchemist became an international best-seller.
The writings, poetry, and quotes of Paulo Coelho have influenced and motivated readers all over the world.
Here is a collection of Paulo Coelho most inspiring quotes. Paulo Coelho Quotes About Success, Happiness and Dreams. Paulo Coelho Quotes on Life, Love & The Alchemist from some of his most popular books. Coelho Love Quotes The alchemist. Inspirational quotes and sayings about life, love and marriage by Paulo Coelho.
Paulo Coelho Quotes and Sayings
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. 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.
Tears are words that need to be written.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.
Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
You are what you believe yourself to be.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
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.
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now.
Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
I've learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you're with me, even when you're not by my side.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
"Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure."
Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.
Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.
behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.
Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
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 yet 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.
Why is patience so important? Because it makes us pay attention.
We pretend to be strong because we are weak.
Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
Haters are confused admirers who can't understand why everybody else likes you.
You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.
And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.
If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
When you're in love, you're capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.
Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.
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. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.
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.
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
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 am really part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
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.
Love simply is.
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.
If I must fall, may it be from a high place.
God always offers us a second chance in life.
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.
It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.
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.
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.
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.
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's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.
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.
And that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.
I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.
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.
Nothing in this world happens by chance.
We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
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.
Collective madness is called sanity.
Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.
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.
Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.
To love is to lose control.
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.
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.
Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
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.
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
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.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
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.
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.
No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up and show up.
Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.
Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.
Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things.
Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.
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.
The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.
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.
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.
In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.
What hurts us is what heals us.
Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny.
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
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.
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.
To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.
We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.
You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.
If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world.
The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.
Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.
Nothing in this world happens by chance.
Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.
Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.
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.
Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.
It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.
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.
It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil... It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
You are what you believe yourself to be.
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.
Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.
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.
Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present.
When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.
Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.
Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.
Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.
If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.
The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.
There is always a gap between intention and action.
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.
what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
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.
All love stories are the same.
Death frees from the fear of dying.
Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.
Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.
You must always know what it is that you want.
Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.
Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.
It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.
Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.
Go and get your things, he said. Dreams mean work.
No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.
If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you.
She wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.
Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.
And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.
God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change.
They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.
Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near.
I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.
The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.
Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.
If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.
A life without a cause is a life without effect.
I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.
Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.
The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.
I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.
The night is just a part of the day.
Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.
Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.
I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.
Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another.
It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Dreams are the language of God.
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged on it.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
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.
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.
I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.
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.
Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live.
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
Don't forget:beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
First it hurts, then it changes us.
Don't worry, the right ones won't leave.
Rumors are created by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.
I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.
To heal a wound you must stop scratching it.
I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than be normal and bitter.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people.
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
The reward for our work is not what we get, but what we become.
If we don't face our fears, our fears will chase us forever.
We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – Never lie to yourself.
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.
The distance between dreams and reality is called discipline.
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