Top 500 Paulo Coelho Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.”

— Paulo Coelho

203. “To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn’t afraid of facing challenges.”

— Paulo Coelho

204. “Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.”

— Paulo Coelho

205. “We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.”

— Paulo Coelho

206. “Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move.”

— Paulo Coelho

207. “I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body.”

— Paulo Coelho

208. “Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.”

— Paulo Coelho

209. “At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.”

— Paulo Coelho

210. “Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.”

— Paulo Coelho

211. “If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day.”

— Paulo Coelho

212. “Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”

— Paulo Coelho

213. “The brave are always stubborn.”

— Paulo Coelho

214. “May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.”

— Paulo Coelho

215. “Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it’s possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.”

— Paulo Coelho

216. “A Warrior of the Light cannot always choose his battlefield.”

— Paulo Coelho

217. “The universe conspires to help the dreamer.”

— Paulo Coelho

218. “Stop thinking about life and choose to live it.”

— Paulo Coelho

219. “You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”

— Paulo Coelho

220. “In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.”

— Paulo Coelho

221. “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. Act because you need to act.”

— Paulo Coelho

222. “The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.”

— Paulo Coelho

223. “Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.”

— Paulo Coelho

224. “You don’t need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.”

— Paulo Coelho

225. “Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs.”

— Paulo Coelho

226. “When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.”

— Paulo Coelho

227. “There is always a gap between intention and action...”

— Paulo Coelho

228. “We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don’t, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.”

— Paulo Coelho

229. “I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love.”

— Paulo Coelho

230. “What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don’t get caught in this trap.”

— Paulo Coelho

231. “When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.”

— Paulo Coelho

232. “Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.”

— Paulo Coelho

233. “No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”

— Paulo Coelho

234. “Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.”

— Paulo Coelho

235. “Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.”

— Paulo Coelho

236. “The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.”

— Paulo Coelho

237. “Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.”

— Paulo Coelho

238. “When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.”

— Paulo Coelho

239. “Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.”

— Paulo Coelho

240. “If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big.”

— Paulo Coelho

241. “Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

— Paulo Coelho

242. “The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.”

— Paulo Coelho

243. “With every farewell comes a hidden hope.”

— Paulo Coelho

244. “Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.”

— Paulo Coelho

245. “Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.”

— Paulo Coelho

246. “On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don’t stop.”

— Paulo Coelho

247. “Never save the best for later. You don’t know what tomorrow holds.”

— Paulo Coelho

248. “We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.”

— Paulo Coelho

249. “For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.”

— Paulo Coelho

250. “Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex.”

— Paulo Coelho