Top 500 Paulo Coelho Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

402. “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.”

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403. “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.”

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404. “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.”

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

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

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

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408. “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

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

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

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411. “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.”

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412. “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.”

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

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

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415. “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.”

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416. “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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417. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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423. “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.”

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424. “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.”

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

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

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427. “I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”

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

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

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430. “Love gives us the strength to perform impossible tasks.”

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

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432. “Only when l know, the truth will set me free!”

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433. “Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.”

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434. “Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.”

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435. “The energy of hatred won’t get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.”

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

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437. “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.”

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438. “Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens – a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

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439. “Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy.”

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440. “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.”

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441. “Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don’t know something.”

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442. “If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.”

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443. “I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I’m a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.”

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444. “To say “no” is painful, but much better than a “yes” that brings regrets.”

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445. “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.”

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446. “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.”

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

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448. “Body and soul need new challenges.”

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

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450. “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