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Paulo Coelho Quotes

born 1947 Brazil

Paulo Coelho de Souza (IPA: [ˈpau̯lu ˈko̯eʎu]) (born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian poet and writer.

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Also known as: The Witch of Portobello

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185 quotes

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

The Alchemist (1988)

I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs.

The Zahir (2005)

What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

The Witch of Portobello (2007)

Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving.

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012)

Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012)

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

Publishing Tips : Weekly Strategies for the Independent Writer‎ (2008)

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012)

A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety.

The Manual of the Warrior of Light (1997)

There is only one way to learn … It's through action.

The Alchemist (1988)

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."

Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia — love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

The Witch of Portobello (2007)

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

Veronica Decides to Die (1998)

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

The Zahir (2005)

As an author, I should be defending ‘intellectual property’, but I’m not. Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!

We love because Love sets us free, and we say things that we once never even had the courage to whisper to ourselves.

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012)

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012)

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.

The Alchemist (1988)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paulo Coelho (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.