Paulo Coelho Quotes

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

If you make enough decisions in life, you’re bound to make some of them wrong.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick

What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

All of life is the exercise of risk.

A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

Life is a risk.

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

Living is risking.

One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.

I think, whatever makes you happy in life, you gotta do it. You can't plan in life too much.