Top 500 Paulo Coelho Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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

402. “I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.”

— Paulo Coelho

403. “All haters are losers, even when they win.”

— Paulo Coelho

404. “Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don’t want to and when we think we don’t need to.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

408. “When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced humiliation and yet kept on walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.”

— Paulo Coelho

409. “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

410. “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

411. “Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made.”

— Paulo Coelho

412. “Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in wich have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Our magic moment helps us to change and send us off in search of our dreams.”

— Paulo Coelho

413. “Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.”

— Paulo Coelho

414. “Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.”

— Paulo Coelho

415. “If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.”

— Paulo Coelho

416. “Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”

— Paulo Coelho

417. “Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”

— Paulo Coelho

418. “The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom.”

— Paulo Coelho

419. “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

420. “Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you’ll gradually get used to it.”

— Paulo Coelho

421. “Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.”

— Paulo Coelho

422. “There are two kinds of idiots – those who don’t take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”

— Paulo Coelho

423. “But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

425. “One can abandon one’s personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.”

— Paulo Coelho

426. “I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.”

— Paulo Coelho

427. “Body and soul need new challenges.”

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428. “The warrior of light only risks his heart for something worthwhile.”

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429. “Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.”

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430. “But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.”

— Paulo Coelho

431. “To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.”

— Paulo Coelho

432. “Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.”

— Paulo Coelho

433. “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

434. “You are protected. But if you don’t take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation...”

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435. “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

436. “This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.”

— Paulo Coelho

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437. “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

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438. “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

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

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440. “If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.”

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441. “We make a lot of detours, but we’re always heading for the same destination.”

— Paulo Coelho

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442. “Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Paulo Coelho

444. “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

445. “The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.”

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446. “Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.”

— Paulo Coelho

447. “Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.”

— Paulo Coelho

448. “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

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

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450. “Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”

— Paulo Coelho