Paulo Coelho Quotes

Everyone is always making transitions in life.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Some were getting married; some were getting divorced. People were in different places, but you had enough time on this earth to actually get somewhere, and I think that's the exciting thing about being 36 and in your mid-30s. You've been somewhere, and you're going to go somewhere. It's fun; it's exciting.

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

My life has been about big changes.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.

Life is about seasons, and I think you got to know the seasons.

You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that back in the Sixties when I was getting started.

'Orphee' is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copenhagen, and building a new one in Berlin - about the death of old relationships and the birth of new ones.

Everybody is changing.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.