Top 500 Paulo Coelho Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.”

— Paulo Coelho

52. “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

53. “Tears are words that need to be written.”

— Paulo Coelho

54. “Remember the saying, What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger? It’s true!”

— Paulo Coelho

55. “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

— Paulo Coelho

56. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.”

— Paulo Coelho

57. “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

58. “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

59. “What hurts us is what heals us.”

— Paulo Coelho

60. “And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

— Paulo Coelho

61. “The devil is in the detail.”

— Paulo Coelho

62. “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

63. “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

64. “It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.”

— Paulo Coelho

65. “It’s only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”

— Paulo Coelho

66. “When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

— Paulo Coelho

67. “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.”

— Paulo Coelho

68. “Remember your dreams and fight for them.”

— Paulo Coelho

69. “Listen to your heart. It knows everything.”

— Paulo Coelho

70. “Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.”

— Paulo Coelho

71. “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.”

— Paulo Coelho

72. “Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”

— Paulo Coelho

73. “Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”

— Paulo Coelho

74. “Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”

— Paulo Coelho

75. “There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”

— Paulo Coelho

76. “Impossible is just an opinion.”

— Paulo Coelho

77. “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.”

— Paulo Coelho

78. “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

79. “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.”

— Paulo Coelho

80. “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

81. “Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”

— Paulo Coelho

82. “Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.”

— Paulo Coelho

83. “If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

84. “Every moment in life is an act of faith.”

— Paulo Coelho

85. “If I must be faithful to someone or something, I first of all have to be faithful to myself.”

— Paulo Coelho

86. “Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow.”

— Paulo Coelho

87. “When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

88. “Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”

— Paulo Coelho

89. “To love is to lose control.”

— Paulo Coelho

90. “Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”

— Paulo Coelho

91. “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

92. “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?”

— Paulo Coelho

93. “And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.”

— Paulo Coelho

94. “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.”

— Paulo Coelho

95. “You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”

— Paulo Coelho

96. “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.”

— Paulo Coelho

97. “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.”

— Paulo Coelho

98. “Always remember the proverb: “This too shall pass.” Your negative feelings won’t last forever, there’s a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you’ll feel better eventually.”

— Paulo Coelho

99. “Sometimes there’s just no way to hold back the river.”

— Paulo Coelho

100. “Only cowards hide behind silence.”

— Paulo Coelho