Paulo Coelho Quotes

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

There's one thing now that I experience every day when I'm making a film. I get up and think to myself, 'Am I going to be able to do it today?' I figure as long as I have that fear, I'll be alright.

I used to say no to almost everything because I thought, 'I've got enough dough, I know what I want to do, and I know what I'm capable of.'

I always say I don't want to change anything in my life.

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.

Any motivation starts with some type of doubt.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

When do any of us ever do enough?

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Everyone doubts themselves. It's just a matter of admitting it or not.

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."

Peace is first of all the art of being.

Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.