Paulo Coelho Quotes

Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!

If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that.

Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

Sometimes I think you do the things you think are best at the time for what you need to take care of, and then just one thing leads to another thing. And one day you're there going, 'How did I get here? It wasn't my ultimate plan, but I'm here.'

It wasn't one film that changed my life, but a series of decisions that brought out the best in me.

Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and then ask yourself 'what should be done about it.' I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don't!

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.