Paulo Coelho Quotes

“Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you’d sink into chaos.”

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.”

“You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don’t feel guilty and accept the blessings.”

“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it - just as we have learned to live with storms.”

“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”

“Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.”

“Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you’ll gradually get used to it.”

“It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

“Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.”

“Visit your soul; don’t visit your past.”

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

“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”

“The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.”

“The fool who gives advice about someone else’s garden is not tending his own plants.”

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”

“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”

“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule - Never lie to yourself.”

“If I must be faithful to someone or something, I first of all have to be faithful to myself.”

“Never apologize for being yourself.”

“The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.”

“Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.”

“Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don’t be afraid to be the best.”

“Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.”

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”

“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near.”

“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”

“An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.”

“To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.”

“You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.”

“It’s only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”

“You can only learn when you teach.”

“To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.”

“We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.”

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

“Braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”

“We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.”

“A bird in a cage is safe but God didn’t create birds for that.”

“Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.”

“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“Don’t listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people’s failures.”

“Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.”

“What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don’t get caught in this trap.”

“Face your path with courage, don’t be scared of people’s criticism. And, above all, don’t let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.”

“The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.”

“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”

“Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.”