Paulo Coelho famous quotes

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Memories #Effort #Succeed

A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Vision #World #Share

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspiring #Teacher #Teaching

Everything is a matter of courage.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Matter

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Positivity #Sunny Day #Destination

Love is the only thing that counts. Love is what keeps the star and the human beings and the world turning around. Love is the force that binds the whole universe together.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Stars #Love Is #Together

That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Pride #Cutting #Winning

I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical sense. I am very active. So, I use archery. I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. And it is my way to meditate and this is the only thing that clears my mind. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don't think, I am communion with the universe.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Archer #Thinking #Arrows

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Love #Life #Patience

Everybody has to share something. This is one of the most important laws of the human condition, is the necessity to share. This is the task of the writer - but not only of a writer, of every human being - it is to share something that he or she has.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Law #Important #Tasks

Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspiring #Divorce #Wounds

Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it's not more difficult, no. And even when my protagonist is masculine, I'm writing from using this feminine energy.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Art #Writing #Creativity

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational #Life #Happiness

For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience and the thing that you have to do is experience life instead of only reading about it. Reading is very important, but it's not enough. After reading, you have to take some decisions in your hands and move forward and be the human being that you are, and then going and meeting people and work.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Moving #Book #Reading

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Want

To dream is not enough, you have to fulfill your dream.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Dream #Enough

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Love #Confused #Feelings

Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures. When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Book #Years #Bridges

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

Children are always looking at the world as if it was for the first time in their lives. So, we should always look to the world with the eyes of a child. I am not saying be naive, I am saying be innocent in the sense of discovering things.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Children #Eye #Looks

Don't let anyone make you feel that you don't deserve the good things that happen in your life
-- Paulo Coelho

#Good Things #Feels #Deserve

Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Heart #Simple #Simplicity

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Losing Someone #Tragedy #Losing

It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Law #Punishment #Desire

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

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
-- Paulo Coelho

#Love #Inspirational #Life

Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Impact #Transformation #Provoking

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Courage #Inspiration #Adventure

We are here because we are made by God, we will return to God. So people who think that they are something, they are totally wrong. And this is the most beautiful thing in life, it is that we don't own anything. So, everything is ours in the sense that we have the world to explore and not things to carry, a burden to carry.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Beautiful #Thinking #People

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

#Love #Inspirational #Change

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Honesty

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

#Life #Happiness #Mistake

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Blessing #Want #Life Is

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Light #Flames #Soul

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Dream #Book #Writing

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

#Life #Wise #Wisdom

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Sea #Childhood #Risk

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Love #Life #Inspiration

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."
-- Paulo Coelho

#Country #Wall #Mean

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Love #Tired #Love Is

I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Book #Writing #Years

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.
-- Paulo Coelho

I see is that there are many people who destroy their marriages because of one-night stands with someone else. And as the French say, "C'est ne pas grave." It's not something easy to swallow, but at the same time, it does not justify you to end a long-lasting relationship because something happened.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Night #Long #People

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Tragedy #Different #Looks

Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Passion #Interesting #Bored

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

#Life #Pain #Regret

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Encouraging #Wisdom #Encouragement

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Journey #Dancing

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

#Love #Life #Inspiration

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational #Freedom #Commitment

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace
-- Paulo Coelho

#Night #Soul #Able

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

#Love #Life #Happiness

Life is not about good answers, it is about interesting questions.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Interesting #Answers #Life Is

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational #Life #Pain

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Eye #Lessons

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

#Life #Inspiring #Views

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Change #Meaningful

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #God #Disappointment

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

#Love #Life #Inspiring

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Happiness #I Hate You

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

#Giving Up #Moving #Tired

Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Integrity #Thinking #Years

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Losing A Loved One #Loss #Forever

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational #Life #Happiness

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

#Life #Happiness #Inspiring

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational #Life #Positivity

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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

#Life #Happiness #Break Up

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

#Life #Positive #Happiness

You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Battle #Might #Lost

Forget everything you've ever learned about the stars and they'll once more be transformed into angels, or into children, or into whatever you want to believe at that moment. It won't make you more stupid - after all, it's only a game - but it could enrich your life.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Stars #Children #Stupid

If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it
-- Paulo Coelho

#Pay #Attention #Pay Attention

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Soul #Solitude #Helping

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

#Life #Spiritual #Morning

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

#Life #Happiness #Inspiring

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Reality #Simplicity

Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Dream #Memories

The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Dream #Travel

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Strength #Courage #Fear

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

#Life #Wine #Trying

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life And Love #Future #Party

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?
-- Paulo Coelho

#Talking #Stronger #Earth

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory
-- Paulo Coelho

#Love #Life #Happiness

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

#Life #Happiness #Travel

If we don't face our fears, our fears will chase us forever.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Forever #Faces

You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Dream #Needs

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Crazy #People #Being Crazy

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

#Patience #Art #Exercise

Be fully awake if you want to dream
-- Paulo Coelho

#Dream #Want #Awake

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.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Love #Real #Winning

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

#Life #Motivational #Happiness

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.
-- Paulo Coelho

#People #Risk #Poverty

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

#Love #I Hate You

Tears are words that need to be written.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational #Life #Sad

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Happiness #Giving Up

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Beauty #Eye #Light

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

#Opportunity #Way #Wonderful

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

#Dream #Crazy #People

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Attitude #Positivity

Only cowards hide behind silence.
-- Paulo Coelho

#Life #Inspiration #Silence