117 Profound Quotes of Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho, the acclaimed Brazilian author, is renowned for his profound and inspirational writings that resonate with readers around the globe. Paulo Coelho Quotes, brimming with wisdom and insight, offer guidance on love, dreams, and the pursuit of one’s personal legend. In this article, we explore some of Coelho’s most impactful quotes, delving into their deeper meanings and uncovering the life-changing messages they convey. Whether you’re seeking motivation or a fresh perspective, Coelho’s words promise to inspire and uplift.

Paulo Coelho Quotes

1. “If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule—Never lie to yourself.” ~ Paulo Coelho

2. “When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.” ~ Paulo Coelho

3. “One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” ~ Paulo Coelho

4. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” ~ Paulo Coelho
5. “I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.” ~ Paulo Coelho
6. “When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.” ~ Paulo Coelho
7. “I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset—tears are words waiting to be written.” ~ Paulo Coelho
8. “The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.” ~ Paulo Coelho
9. “Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.” ~ Paulo Coelho
10. “Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs—but move on.” ~ Paulo Coelho
11. “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” ~ Paulo Coelho
12. “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
13. “Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.” ~ Paulo Coelho
14. “People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.” ~ Paulo Coelho
15. “Life has a way of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.” ~ Paulo Coelho
16. “People are capable at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” ~ Paulo Coelho
17. “Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” ~ Paulo Coelho
18. “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” ~ Paulo Coelho
19. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
20. “There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.” ~ Paulo Coelho
21. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
22. “Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.” ~ Paulo Coelho
23. “How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.” ~ Paulo Coelho
24. “God always offers us a second chance in life.” ~ Paulo Coelho
25. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
26. “Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” ~ Paulo Coelho
27. “It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.” ~ Paulo Coelho
28. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose—and commit myself to —what is best for me.” ~ Paulo Coelho
29. “Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.” ~ Paulo Coelho
30. “People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” ~ Paulo Coelho
31. “You must always know what it is that you want.” ~ Paulo Coelho
32. “Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.” ~ Paulo Coelho
33. “If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you.” ~ Paulo Coelho
34. “I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body.” ~ Paulo Coelho
35. “There is always a gap between intention and action.” ~ Paulo Coelho
36. “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
37. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
38. “Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.” ~ Paulo Coelho
39. “I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.” ~ Paulo Coelho
40. “I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution—they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.” ~ Paulo Coelho
41. “You are what you believe yourself to be.” ~ Paulo Coelho
42. “You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” ~ Paulo Coelho
43. “I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.” ~ Paulo Coelho
44. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
45. “And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.” ~ Paulo Coelho
46. “What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.” ~ Paulo Coelho
47. “Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.” ~ Paulo Coelho
48. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
49. “Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.” ~ Paulo Coelho
50. “Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.” ~ Paulo Coelho
51. “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” ~ Paulo Coelho
52. “When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.” ~ Paulo Coelho
53. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” ~ Paulo Coelho
54. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
55. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
56. “You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” ~ Paulo Coelho
57. “Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present.” ~ Paulo Coelho
58. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
59. “People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.” ~ Paulo Coelho
60. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
61. “When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive—I’ll find love again.” ~ Paulo Coelho
62. “The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.” ~ Paulo Coelho
63. “Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.” ~ Paulo Coelho
64. “Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.” ~ Paulo Coelho
65. “I hate to be smart.” ~ Paulo Coelho
66. “Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” ~ Paulo Coelho
67. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
68. “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ~ Paulo Coelho
69. “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.” ~ Paulo Coelho
70. “You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.” ~ Paulo Coelho
71. “Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.” ~ Paulo Coelho
72. “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.” ~ Paulo Coelho
73. “No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.” ~ Paulo Coelho
74. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
75. “We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.” ~ Paulo Coelho
76. “The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.” ~ Paulo Coelho
77. “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” ~ Paulo Coelho
78. “The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.” ~ Paulo Coelho
79. “Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.” ~ Paulo Coelho
80. “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” ~ Paulo Coelho
81. “The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.” ~ Paulo Coelho
82. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
83. “Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.” ~ Paulo Coelho
84. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
85. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ~ Paulo Coelho
86. “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” ~ Paulo Coelho
87. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
88. “However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.” ~ Paulo Coelho
89. “If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.” ~ Paulo Coelho
90. “I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.” ~ Paulo Coelho
91. “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.” ~ Paulo Coelho
92. “The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.” ~ Paulo Coelho
93. “Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.” ~ Paulo Coelho
94. “I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.” ~ Paulo Coelho
95. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
96. “Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.” ~ Paulo Coelho
97. “I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.” ~ Paulo Coelho
98. “Certain things in life simply have to be experienced—and never explained. Love is such a thing.” ~ Paulo Coelho
99. “You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.” ~ Paulo Coelho
100. “No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.” ~ Paulo Coelho
101. “Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.” ~ Paulo Coelho
102. “We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.” ~ Paulo Coelho
103. “It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you’ll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.” ~ Paulo Coelho
104. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” ~ Paulo Coelho
105. “Go and get your things,’ he said. ‘Dreams mean work.” ~ Paulo Coelho
106. “It’s only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.” ~ Paulo Coelho
107. “You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.” ~ Paulo Coelho
108. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
109. “People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” ~ Paulo Coelho
110. “Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don’t know what to do with it.” ~ Paulo Coelho
111. “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?” ~ Paulo Coelho
112. “Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.” ~ Paulo Coelho
113. “What hurts us is what heals us.” ~ Paulo Coelho
114. “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.” ~ Paulo Coelho
115. “Don’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.” ~ Paulo Coelho
116. “If I must fall, may it be from a high place.” ~ Paulo Coelho
117. “No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up and show up.” ~ Paulo Coelho