Paulo Coelho Quotes

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Half my life is an act of revision.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

It took me a while to find myself.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn't always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.