Paulo Coelho Quotes

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?

An individual human existence should be like a river

Life is as inexorable as the sea.

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding river. More often than not, you can only see to the next bend, and only when you reach that next turn can you see more.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

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.

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

Life's uncertain voyage.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.