Paulo Coelho Quotes

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

Granddad taught me a long time ago, act like you've been there before.

During cancer, when I was flat out on the bed, I was so helpless. I wanted to do things my way, but it was not happening. I learnt to trust the process of life and letting other people also sometimes take control. I became more easy-going.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

You have to take everything as it comes.

The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.

In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.