Top 500 Paulo Coelho Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

353. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

356. “Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don’t know what to do with it.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

358. “If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.”

— Paulo Coelho

359. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

361. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

363. “Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

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

— Paulo Coelho

367. “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

368. “Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say “yes” to life?”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

370. “The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

372. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

375. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

377. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

379. “Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

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382. “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

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

— Paulo Coelho

384. “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

385. “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

386. “An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

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389. “Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: ‘I’ve arrived.’ That way you’ll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day.”

— Paulo Coelho

390. “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

391. “Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

393. “So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

395. “The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.”

— Paulo Coelho

396. “Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won’t make you cry.”

— Paulo Coelho

397. “It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love – it is necessary to conquer it too.”

— Paulo Coelho

398. “But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.”

— Paulo Coelho

399. “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.”

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400. “God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we’re walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.”

— Paulo Coelho