Paulo Coelho Quotes

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

Oh, I knew he was gonna do that. I just knew he was gonna do that. He don't need Jannetty. I told you that off and on.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it