Paulo Coelho Quotes

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Truth is a tendency.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

Moral: It all depends.

You may be wrong, but you may be right.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

I want to have a sense of openness and optimism, even if that means being open to things that are potentially dark.

In life, anything can happen, and I do not close the door to anything.