Paulo Coelho quotes

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

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
- Paulo Coelho

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.
- Paulo Coelho

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
- Paulo Coelho

Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
- Paulo Coelho

You are what you believe yourself to be.
- Paulo Coelho

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 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

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
- Paulo Coelho

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.
- Paulo Coelho

Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.
- Paulo Coelho

People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.
- Paulo Coelho

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
- Paulo Coelho

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
- Paulo Coelho

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
- Paulo Coelho

Dreams are the language of God.
- Paulo Coelho

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
- Paulo Coelho

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
- Paulo Coelho

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – Never lie to yourself.
- Paulo Coelho

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
- Paulo Coelho

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs – but move on.
- Paulo Coelho

A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
- Paulo Coelho

There is always a gap between intention and action.
- Paulo Coelho

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.
- Paulo Coelho

No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up.
- Paulo Coelho

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.
- Paulo Coelho

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

We need to forget what we thing we are, so that we really become what we are.
- Paulo Coelho