Top 500 Paulo Coelho Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won’t make you cry.”

— Paulo Coelho

352. “I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn’t realized that I was the one person in the world with the authority to open them.”

— Paulo Coelho

353. “The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.”

— Paulo Coelho

354. “Love is joy. Don’t convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.”

— Paulo Coelho

355. “In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.”

— Paulo Coelho

356. “In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a matter of reading the inscription He wrote for you.”

— Paulo Coelho

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357. “If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.”

— Paulo Coelho

358. “The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

— Paulo Coelho

359. “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

360. “Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.”

— Paulo Coelho

361. “A Warrior of Light values a child’s eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would.”

— Paulo Coelho

362. “Choosing one path means abandoning others – if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.”

— Paulo Coelho

363. “Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity.”

— Paulo Coelho

364. “I don’t regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.”

— Paulo Coelho

365. “If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.”

— Paulo Coelho

366. “Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.”

— Paulo Coelho

367. “Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That’s all you need.”

— Paulo Coelho

368. “I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits.”

— Paulo Coelho

369. “A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.”

— Paulo Coelho

370. “If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

— Paulo Coelho

371. “The warrior of the light has a destiny to fulfill.”

— Paulo Coelho

372. “Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.”

— Paulo Coelho

373. “Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.”

— Paulo Coelho

374. “Today don’t beg, don’t ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.”

— Paulo Coelho

375. “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.”

— Paulo Coelho

376. “Love is looking at the same mountains from different angles.”

— Paulo Coelho

377. “You don’t need to climb a mountain to know that it’s high.”

— Paulo Coelho

378. “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it – just as we have learned to live with storms.”

— Paulo Coelho

379. “The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.”

— Paulo Coelho

380. “She would consider each day a miracle – which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.”

— Paulo Coelho

381. “Visit your soul; don’t visit your past.”

— Paulo Coelho

382. “When two people fall in love, past and future disappear.”

— Paulo Coelho

383. “Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.”

— Paulo Coelho

384. “Love your enemy. But don’t forget he is not your friend.”

— Paulo Coelho

385. “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

386. “Yesterday’s pain is the Warrior of the Light’s strength.”

— Paulo Coelho

387. “What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.”

— Paulo Coelho

388. “If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”

— Paulo Coelho

389. “When you drink water, don’t forget the fountain.”

— Paulo Coelho

390. “After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”

— Paulo Coelho

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391. “Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”

— Paulo Coelho

392. “Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.”

— Paulo Coelho

393. “Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God’s messages.”

— Paulo Coelho

394. “The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias and to fight for our dreams.”

— Paulo Coelho

395. “I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me.”

— Paulo Coelho

396. “I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.”

— Paulo Coelho

397. “Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.”

— Paulo Coelho

398. “Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.”

— Paulo Coelho

399. “Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

400. “It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!”

— Paulo Coelho