Paulo Coelho Quotes

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.

Don't fear change. It's always for the best.

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change....or die.

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Surviving means being born over and over.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.