Paulo Coelho Quotes

Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Rather than the destination it is the journey that lends meaning to our lives, great Neelkanth. Being faithful to our path will lead to consequences, both good as well as bad. For that is the way of the universe.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

Start to see yourself for who you really are: a traveller, an explorer or on the path of life, confidently advancing along the path of enlightenment towards your destiny. Don't lose sight of the things that are truly vital in your life.

Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right.

The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

I guess destiny isn't the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.