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The 100 Greatest Paulo Coelho Quotes Of All Time

The secret to life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Kirsten Corley
September 15, 2016
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Waiting, Forgetting, Moving On, Limbo, Suffering, Pain
“If you only walk on sunny days you’ll never reach your destination.”
— Paulo Coelho, No Title
Tagged: Perserverance, motivation, Ambition
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”
— Paulo Coelho, Searching For Meaning
Tagged: Meaning, Life, purpose, Freedom, Choices
“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”
— Paulo Coelho, Maktub
Tagged: Love, Inspirational, Paulo Coelho, Maktub, Books
“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
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. ”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Pain, Loss, Longing, Love, Grief, Grieving, Death, Breakups, Moving On
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Loss, Pain, Leaving, New Beginnings, Starting Over, Endings, Saying Goodbye, Goodbyes, Change
“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
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Loss, Identity, Being Lost, Finding Yourself, Finding Your Way
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Perspective, Adventure, Life, Choices, Optimism
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Life, Hope, Crisis, Crises, Change, Overcoming Challenges, Pain
“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Taking Risks, Failure, Advice, Judging Others, Self-Direction, Empowering
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Loneliness, Love, Belonging, Being Alone, Pain, Grief, Loss
“Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die
Tagged: Sanity, Life, Conformity, Self-Concept, Mental Health, Mental Illness
“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die
Tagged: Adventure, Opportunity, Chance, Taking Risks, Taking Chances, Comfort, Comfort Zone, Breaking Free
“We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.”
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die
Tagged: Unity, Individuality, Interconnectedness, Life, Perception, Self-Concept
“Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.””
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life, Accepting Love, Change
“Love is like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he’s not there, you feel like an addict who can’t get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you’re willing to do anything for love.”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Love, Addiction, Relationships, Co-dependency, Fear, Co-dependent Relationships
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: travel, Courage, Adventure, Bravery, Leaving, Money
“You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Blame, Success, Failure, Taking Responsibility
“If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Exploration, Life, Optimism, Destiny
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil And Miss Prym
Tagged: Love, Loving Freely, Accepting Love, heart
“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil And Miss Prym
Tagged: Change, Making Change
“And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil And Miss Prym
Tagged: Good, Evil, Morality, Mankind
“ You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil And Miss Prym
Tagged: Happiness, Joy, Pain, Suffering, Accepting Happiness, Paradise, Hell
“The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Tagged: Time, Commitment, motivation, Empowering
“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Lessons, Learning, Life, Progression, Moving Forward, Uncertainty