The best phrases of Paulo Coelho

We have prepared a very complete list in which we have included the best phrases of Paulo Coelho, a repertoire that will help you meditate and analyze some aspects of life that often go unnoticed.

Who is Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho is a writer who was born in 1947 in Brazil, and is currently considered one of the most widely read novelists in the world, with more than 200 million books sold in more than 150 countries, which have been translated to a total of 81 languages.

At present he is also a Unesco advisor and United Nations Messenger of Peace.

His titles and most outstanding works are Diary of a magician, The alchemist, Brida, The Valkyries, On the banks of the Piedra river I sat and cried, The fifth mountain, Manual of the warrior of light, Veronika decides to die, The demon and the lady Prym, Eleven Minutes, The Zahir, The Witch of Portobello, The Victor Is Alone, Aleph and The Manuscript Found in Accra.

In addition, throughout his life he has built some phrases that will remain for posterity, which help us to know ourselves better, to value things much better and above all to stop and think about what surrounds us.

Paulo Coelho quotes

We are going to take a brief tour knowing some of the most popular phrases of this writer, including both those that appear in his works and help us to think, as well as other more direct ones that he has used in important moments in his life.

• What is success? It is the power to go to bed each night with the soul at peace. "
• "What is the Liberty? Freedom is not the absence of commitments, it is to stop doing what one does not want "
• “What is it that makes a person loathe himself? Maybe cowardice. Or the eternal fear of being wrong, of not doing what others expect. "
• "Sometimes you don't have a second chance and it is better to accept the gifts the world offers you."
• “Face your way with courage, do not be afraid of criticism from others. And, above all, don't let yourself be paralyzed by your own criticism ”.
• "Someday everything will make sense. For now, laugh at the confusion, smile through your tears and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. "
• "Sometimes you have to decide between one thing you are used to and another that you would like to know."
• “I love almost anything about my job except lectures. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love singing and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul. "
• "Even if happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the most beautiful woman, with the biggest house, changing cars, wishing for what we don't have."
• “Shine without guilt. Modesty is an invention of the mediocre, who want you to look like them "
• “Each person, in their existence, can have two attitudes: build or plant. The builders one day finish what they were doing and then boredom invades them. Those who plant sometimes suffer from storms and seasons, but the garden never stops growing. "
• "Every human being has, within himself, something much more important than himself: his gift"
• “I believe that enlightenment or revelation comes in everyday life. I am looking for the enjoyment, the peace of the action. You need to act. I would have stopped writing years ago if it was for the money. "
• "When someone wants something, they must know that they are taking risks and that is why life is worth it."
• “When we love, we always strive to be better than we are. When we strive to be better than we are, everything around us becomes better. "
• “When we delay the harvest, the fruits rot; and when we delay problems, they don't stop growing. "
• “When you grow up, you will discover that you have already defended lies, deceived yourself or suffered because of nonsense. If you are a good warrior, you will not blame yourself for it, but you will not let your mistakes repeat themselves. "
• “When I write a book, I write it for myself; the reaction depends on the reader. It is not my business if people like it or dislike it. "
• "When every day seems the same it is because we have stopped perceiving the good things that appear in our lives."
• “The more in harmony you are with yourself, the more you enjoy and the more faith you have. Faith does not disconnect you from reality, it connects you with it. "
• "It is useless to understand the entire universe when you are alone."
• "God created the desert so that man could smile when he saw the palm trees"
• "God judges the tree by its fruits, and not by its roots"
• "Love is risky, but it always has been like that. People have been searching and finding each other for thousands of years. "
• "Love is a wild force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to trap him enslaves us. When we try to understand it, let us lost and confused."
• "The strongest love is the one that can show its fragility."
• “Love is not in the other, it is within ourselves; we wake it up. But to wake up we need the other.
• "Love is discovered through the practice of loving and not through words."
• "Love only rests when it dies. A living love is a love in conflict. "
• "The art of sex is the art of controlling the lack of control."
• “The ship is safest when it is in port; but that's not what ships were built for ”.
• "The pain is in our daily life, in the hidden suffering, in the renunciation we make and blame love for the defeat of our dreams."
• “The writer must discover new platforms to share his work. The world of books is undergoing a radical change and there are still people who do not realize it. It amazes me that so many writers are so reluctant to the social community. I, however, believe that the more information we receive, the greater our freedom. "
• "The warrior then understands that repeated experiences have a single purpose: to teach him what he does not want to learn."
• “Man is the only being in nature who is aware that he is going to die. (…) He does not realize that, with the awareness of death, he would be able to be more daring, to go much further in his daily conquests, because he has nothing to lose, since death is inevitable. "
• "Evil is not what goes into a man's mouth, evil is what comes out of it."
• “The greatest goal in life is to love. The rest is silence. "
• "The world is in the hands of people capable of seeing the transformations of the present, of people with the courage to live their dreams, each according to their own talent."
• "The first sign that we are killing our dreams is lack of time."
• "The wise is wise because he loves. The madman is mad because he thinks he can understand love. "
• “The Lord hears the prayers of those who ask to forget hatred. But he is deaf to those who want to flee from love. "
• “There are no rules in love. We can try to be guided by a manual, control the heart, have a behavioral strategy… But all that is nonsense. "
• “In children's stories, princesses kiss toads, who turn into princes. In real life, princesses kiss princes who turn into toads. "
• "Instead of cursing the place where you fell, you should look for what made you slip."
• “Enemy is not the one in front of you, sword in hand. He's the one next to you, with the dagger behind his back. "
• "It is better to lose a few matches in the fight for our dreams than to be defeated without even knowing what you are fighting for."
• "It is necessary to learn what we need and not just what we want."
• “Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But the worst suffering is not knowing what decision to make "
• “This is freedom: to feel what the heart desires, regardless of the opinion of others. Love liberates. "

• “You have said many times that absolute freedom does not exist; what exists is the freedom to choose anything, and from there to commit to that decision. "
• "There are attitudes that hurt, things that confuse and attitudes that distance."
• "There are two types of world, the one we dream of and the one that is real."
• "Alchemy is the projection into the physical world of our spiritual longings."
• "The absolutely calm is not the ocean law. The same is true in the ocean of life. "
• "Faith is a difficult conquest, which requires daily battles to maintain it."
• "The great victory that seems easy today was the result of small victories that went unnoticed"
• “Youth is like that, it establishes its own limits without asking if the body is capable of supporting them. And the body always is. "
• "The possibility of realizing a dream is what makes life interesting."
• "Reason fears defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges."
• "Life is not about having good answers, it is about having interesting questions."
• "Life moves quickly. It plunges us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. "
• "Simple things are the most extraordinary and only the wise can see them"
• "Strings that are always tight end up going out of tune."
• “Decisions are just the beginning of something. When someone makes a decision, they are plunged into a powerful current that takes a person to a place that they would never have dreamed of when they made the decision. "
• "People who only seek success almost never find it, because it is not an end in itself, but a consequence."
• "People always tend to help others just to feel better than they really are."
• “You ask me about death. I have to die and then I'll tell him. Although I do believe that there is another life, but I don't know which one. But live, what happens next is not interesting. "
• "No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when you look directly into his eyes."
• "No life is complete without a touch of madness."
• “I don't believe in happiness, which is an XNUMXth century invention. I am more interested in joy than happiness, which was never one of my priorities. Of course, I too have fear, I suffer despair, but I have joy. Happiness is like wanting to stop time and space ... and then you are struck by lightning. "
• "It is not necessary to give to receive, when a mistress gives her all, regardless of anything else."
• "Do not allow your injuries to transform you into someone you are not."
• "Do not pretend to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent"
• "Love should not be judged by past suffering."
• "Don't be one of those who seek, find, and then flee in fear."
• “I am not a self-help writer. I am a problem solving writer of my own. When people read my books, I provoke things. I cannot justify my work. I do my job; it is up to them to classify and judge it. "
• “She was not afraid of difficulties: what scared her was the obligation to choose a path. Choosing one path meant abandoning others ”.
• “Not everything in life is one color or another. Look but the rainbow. "
• Never give up on a dream. Just try to see the signs that lead you to him. "
• “To have a spiritual life, one does not need to enter a seminary, nor does one have to fast, abstinence and chastity. It is enough to have faith and accept God. From there, each one is transformed in his own way, we become the vehicle of his miracles. "
• "We can hear thunder, see lightning and lightning, and think that they are simply meteorological facts, electrical shocks and sparks, but it is much more beautiful and magical to say that God is furious."
• "Try to be so great that everyone wants to reach you and so humble that everyone wants to be with you."
• "Whether life is short or long, it all depends on the way you live."
• Stay with a love that gives you answers and not problems. Security and not fear. Trust and no more doubts. "
• "Who loves waiting for a reward is wasting time."
• "Whoever interferes in the destiny of others will never find his own."
• "Wisdom is knowing and transforming."
• "Be strong so that nobody defeats you, noble so that nobody humiliates you, and yourself so that nobody forget you."
• "If we get to the end of our story, we will see that good is often disguised as bad, but it continues to be good."
• "If you think the adventure is dangerous, try the routine: it is deadly."
• "If you want to be successful, you must respect a rule: Never lie to yourself."
• "If your heart is afraid, explain to it that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself and that no heart ever suffered when it went in search of its dreams because every moment of searching is a moment of encounter with God and with eternity."
• “There is always one person in the world who is waiting for another, be it in the middle of the desert or in the middle of a big city. And when these people meet and their eyes meet, all the past and all the future completely lose their importance and only that moment exists. "
• “You always have to know when a stage is coming to an end. Closing cycles, closing doors, ending chapters; no matter what name we give it, what matters is leaving the moments of life that are over in the past. "
• “Without reason we would not have gotten here. And also by intuition. One of the keys to life is knowing when to use reason and when to get carried away by intuition. Because both are not always bad, but of course they do not sleep in the same bed. "
• "He only spent ten minutes with the love of his life, and thousands of hours thinking about him."
• "Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure."
• "We have to stop and be humble enough to stop and understand that there is something called mystery."
• “Every affliction that comes eventually goes away. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world. "
• “All the life of man on the face of the earth is summed up in the search for love. It doesn't matter if you pretend to run after wisdom, money or power. "
• "All the battles in life serve to teach us something, even those we lose."
• "Everyone seems to have a clear idea of ​​how other people should live their lives, but none of their own."
• "Everything is allowed, unless interrupt a manifestation of love".
• Every man has the right to doubt his task and to abandon it from time to time; the only thing he cannot do is forget her "
• "Everything that happens once may never happen again, but everything that happens twice will certainly happen a third time."
• “Every day God gives us a moment when it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy. The magic moment is the moment when a yes or a no can change our entire existence. "
• "We all have to face many adversaries in life, but the hardest to defeat will be the one we fear."
• "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 strength what he wants."
• "We are going to be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility."
• “I know my own life better than anyone. That is why I am the only one who can judge me, criticize me, or applaud me whenever I want. "

These are them main phrases of Paulo Coelho, and as we always recommend in these cases, the best thing you can do is read each of them carefully so that they help you think and meditate about your own experience, a fantastic way to get to know ourselves better, which It will allow us to change our life and direct it in the direction that brings us closer to our happiness, the happiness of the people around us, and of course also towards our personal success.

Of course, it is recommended that you spend some time each day and read a daily sentence, trying to understand what Paulo Coelho wants to convey to us, and for this it may be interesting to locate it in its original context, so that we will try as much as possible devote the necessary time to each one of them.