Paulo Coelho Quotes

Decide: To succumb to one set of influences over another set.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

What would you do if you had to choose?

Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

It's difficult when you want it all.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.

Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?

A dream is better than obligation.

You have to make your decision based on the content.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.

I’m afraid you’re going to have to make a choice.

Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.