Paulo Coelho Quotes

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

Be like water, my friend.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

Life without limbs? Or life without limits?

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

There will be mistakes and there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.

. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.