The Quotable Paulo Coelho: 50 Quotes to Inspire Your Day

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The Quotable Paulo Coelho

Brazil has graced the world with tons of sacred gifts: samba, cachaça, capoeira, açaí — and everyone’s favorite modern mystic, Paulo Coelho. Learn how to come to terms with the world through the heart of a poet and soul of a seeker.

1. Be brave. Take risks.

2. Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

3. No reason is needed for loving.

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

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

6. Live was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

7. Always heed the omens.

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

9. Live attracts life.

10. When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

11. We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

12. 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.

13. You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

14. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.’

15. The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip. To avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes, or other people’s opinions.

16. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it.

17. If I am really a part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.

18. It is the hand that evokes love and creates a twin soul for every person in the world.

19. The language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart, it was love.

20. Eat when it’s time to eat, and move along when it’s time to move along.

21. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.

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

23. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

24. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World.

25. Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

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

27. Most people see the world as a threatening place and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

28. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

29. There’s no such thing as coincidence.

30. People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

31. Nothing can substitute experience.

32. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him.

33. Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it wets your appetite with a taste of success.

34. People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early.

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

36. To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation.

37. The Soul of the World is nourished by people’s happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, jealousy.

38. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

39. At a certain point in our lives, we lose control and our lives become controlled by fate.

40. Dreams are the language of God.

41. The world we are living in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse.

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

43. There is only one way to learn, and it’s through action.

44. Everything on the face of the earth has a soul: minerals, vegetables, animals, or even just a simple thought.

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

46. Every search begins with beginner’s luck.

47. And every search ends with the victor being severely tested.

48. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

49. Everything we see is just the visible part of reality.

50. Every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world.


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