Top 500 Paulo Coelho Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”

— Paulo Coelho

452. “Love gives us the strength to perform impossible tasks.”

— Paulo Coelho

453. “Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”

— Paulo Coelho

454. “Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”

— Paulo Coelho

455. “Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.”

— Paulo Coelho

456. “Only when l know, the truth will set me free!”

— Paulo Coelho

457. “Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.”

— Paulo Coelho

458. “The energy of hatred won’t get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.”

— Paulo Coelho

459. “Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.”

— Paulo Coelho

460. “Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens – a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

— Paulo Coelho

461. “A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.”

— Paulo Coelho

462. “God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.”

— Paulo Coelho

463. “The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. Highly Addictive! You will see and hear things that don’t exist!”

— Paulo Coelho

464. “Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy.”

— Paulo Coelho

465. “Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don’t know something.”

— Paulo Coelho

466. “He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.”

— Paulo Coelho

467. “The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn’t think. To think is to make mistakes.”

— Paulo Coelho

468. “To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.”

— Paulo Coelho

469. “God exists wherever He is allowed to enter.”

— Paulo Coelho

470. “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

471. “If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.”

— Paulo Coelho

472. “Emotions are wild horses.”

— Paulo Coelho

473. “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.”

— Paulo Coelho

474. “To say “no” is painful, but much better than a “yes” that brings regrets.”

— Paulo Coelho

475. “Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.”

— Paulo Coelho

476. “We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.”

— Paulo Coelho

477. “I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure.”

— Paulo Coelho

478. “Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.”

— Paulo Coelho

479. “She wasn’t a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia – however absurd that might seem.”

— Paulo Coelho

480. “Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph.”

— Paulo Coelho

481. “Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”

— Paulo Coelho

482. “Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.”

— Paulo Coelho

483. “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.”

— Paulo Coelho

484. “Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”

— Paulo Coelho

485. “If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.”

— Paulo Coelho

486. “In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.”

— Paulo Coelho

487. “A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.”

— Paulo Coelho

488. “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.”

— Paulo Coelho

489. “A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.”

— Paulo Coelho

490. “All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that’s a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.”

— Paulo Coelho

491. “If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.”

— Paulo Coelho

492. “A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else’s garden is not tending his own plants.”

— Paulo Coelho

493. “Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.”

— Paulo Coelho

494. “We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn’t stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn’t disappear; it’s transformed into the clean surface.”

— Paulo Coelho

495. “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

496. “Believing that power is much more important than money and that money is much more important than happiness.”

— Paulo Coelho

497. “Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”

— Paulo Coelho

498. “When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”

— Paulo Coelho

499. “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

500. “The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.”

— Paulo Coelho

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