Paulo Coelho Quotes

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.

I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?

I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.

My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.

Most of the things that have happened in my life have been pretty arbitrary. I walk into a room, and someone hits me with a two-by-four, and that changes my life. I'm not sure what I've learned from anything.

I really feel very blessed, and I don't forget it, either; there's an awful lot of wonderful talent in this world, and I just seem to be in the right place at the right time.

Never in my life have I thought, 'What's next?' It's just like 'Finding Dory.' Things just happen.

I shouldn't have been diagnosed as swiftly as I had been. I shouldn't have recovered as fully as I did. I shouldn't have been able to write a book that did as well as it did, and that book should never have been made into a movie. Yet, here I am.

You never know how life turns out.

People seem to want to know stuff that's going to happen before it happens sometimes instead of just enjoying it and following the ride and just seeing where it takes you.

I think confidence is a big part of it. Also luck - the ball has got to fall for you in the right time and the right place.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

Niall Horan was in the right place at the right time, he's the luckiest guy in the world and he knows that.

Some credit is due to Trump for seizing the anti establishment mood of the country, but most of his success can be attributed to pure luck.

It's funny how life works. You end up sometimes back where you started.

The idea of me writing something that I'd get to be in as well was not what I saw coming. I do think that life works that way. When you kind of let go of something and accept that it hasn't worked, it takes all the pressure off, and then you end up getting it.

You never know what can happen in football and in life.

I've only ever had surprises. My whole career's a surprise!