Paulo Coelho Quotes

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

I had a lot of chances to do things that other people don't ever get, and I have to be content with that. I have to look around for some other way to make myself useful.

It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.

I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

I live by two words: tenacity and gratitude.

The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.