Paulo Coelho Quotes

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

I believe I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. I know who and what holds the future. I trust that beyond this space and time, all is well, and all will be well.

Trust in tomorrow...Every day of your life, there's been a tomorrow. I promise you, there'll be a tomorrow. —Alex Morales to Miranda Evans

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

Something will turn up.

Faith gave me the belief that there was somebody looking out for me, that there was a hopeful future on the other side of all the things I was going through.

Just because something is not happening to you doesn't mean that it never will.

I believe in so much - I believe in people. I believe in hope.

I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope.