Paulo Coelho Quotes

One should look forward rather than backwards.

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

What has happened has happened and it is now behind you. Take the best of it all as you move positively forward.

Today is a new day. Today is a day for you to begin creating a joyous, fulfilling life.

You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

I am grateful for all the moments that I have, and I'm moving forward one step at a time to the future.

For me, I love the path that I have taken on. I take all of my experiences; I eliminate all of the bad and take all of the positive.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

I think as long as you learn from your mistakes, and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.