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26 Paulo Coelho Quotes From 'The Alchemist' That'll Motivate You To Face Your Fears

Don't give into your fears if you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart. 
Kirsten Corley
August 25, 2016
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Dreams, Extroverted INtuition, Life
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Desire, Achievement, Love, Goals, Determination
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving Love, Opening Up, Self-improvement, Self-Help, Self-Love
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Life, Challenge, Overcoming Adversity, Change, Failure, Bouncing Back, Resilience, strength
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Perspective, Happiness, Optimism, Wisdom, Simplicity, Minimalism
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, History, Individuality, Importance
“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Fear, Love, Destiny, Listening To Your Heart, Life, Challenge, Change, Authenticity, Staying True To Yourself, Inspirational
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: heart, Identity, Listening To Your Heart, Trust Yourself
“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.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, Empowering, Self-Direction
“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Threats, Perception, Optimism, Pessimism
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Inspiring Quotes, Dream Big, Universe
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: inspire, Dream, wishing, Hoping
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Failure, Bettering Your Future, Achieve
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Secret, Life, Happiness, Try Again, Failing
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Losing Everything, Moving On, Finding Yourself
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Finding Yourself, Being Lost, Failing, Living
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Mistakes, forgiveness, Moving On, Letting Go, Try Again
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Courage, Willingness, Change, Destiny
“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: fears, Overcoming Fear, heart, Love
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Dreams, Dreaming, Achieving, Life, Inspirational
“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Past and Future, Life Quotes, present, Living
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Life Too Short, Happiness, Life, Happy
“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Being Weird, Being Different, Stay Weird
“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Mind, heart, Dreams, Giving Up
“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Right Path, life choices, Fear, Risk, Chance
“Choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Wants, Needs, Choices
“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Choices, Life Choice, decision
“In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Dreams, Chasing Dreams, Wants, Needs
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Failure Quotes, Fear Of Failing, Fear
“The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was a part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: God Quotes, Dreaming, Achieve, Power