Paulo Coelho Quotes

It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.

Over the years I learned that you can have it all - just not at the same time.

Not that I believe you can have it all: I believe you can have it all, just not at the same time.

I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.

You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.

Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

Life is made up of compromises.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

You can have it all, but not all at once.

Life is full of trade-offs. At different phrases in your life, you're able to do certain things that you can't do at other phases. And you make choices.

Unfortunately, in life, you have to make decisions based on so many things. I love watching the Premier League, and I've always had the opportunity to go, but a better offer always got in the way.

For me, it's all about balancing your priorities.