Paulo Coelho Quotes

 
 1. You are what you believe yourself to be. 

2. The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

3. Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.

4. The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

5. I have discovered the reason why a man pays for a woman: he wants to be happy.

6. All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning. 

7. When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

8. Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.

9. Don't waste your time with explanation. People only hear what they want to hear. 

10. When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When i stopped being who I am, I found myself. 

11.  Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. 

12. If you will only walk on sunny days, you will never reach your destination. 

13. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

14. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

15. Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

16. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

17. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

18. I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

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

20. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

21. Life has a way of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.

22. One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

23. If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule "never lie to yourself".

24. It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

25. People are capable at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

26. When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

27. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

28. Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.

29. At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.

30. The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times

31. The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

32. I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

33. You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

34. Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

35. Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

36. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

37. If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

38. Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

39. Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

40. Life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny.

41. The most important experiences we can have are those that take us to the very limit.That is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

42. The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.

43. People want to change everything and, at the same time want it all to remain the same.

44. Tears are words that need to be written.

45. It takes huge effort to free yourself from memory.

46. Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

47. When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

48. To realize one's personal legend is one's only true obligation.

49. All battles in life serve to teach us something, even the battles we lose.

50. If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.