Top 500 Paulo Coelho Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “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

452. “Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

453. “But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.”

— Paulo Coelho

454. “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

455. “But how will I know who my Soulmate is? Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life.”

— Paulo Coelho

456. “Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive. and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.”

— Paulo Coelho

457. “May love be your guide in every moment of your life.”

— Paulo Coelho

458. “It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone’s mind is love.”

— Paulo Coelho

459. “I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you – until you tell me to go away. Then I’ll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life...”

— Paulo Coelho

460. “Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have the courage to complain, that’s their problem.”

— Paulo Coelho

461. “If I must fall, may it be from a high place.”

— Paulo Coelho

462. “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

463. “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

464. “When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.”

— Paulo Coelho

465. “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

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

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

— Paulo Coelho

469. “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

470. “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

471. “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

472. “Emotions are wild horses.”

— Paulo Coelho

473. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

476. “Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

478. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

481. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

483. “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

484. “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

485. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

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489. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

493. “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

494. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

496. “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

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

— 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