Paulo Coelho Quotes

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.

Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?

When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

When one door closes, another window opens.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

Part of the game is moving on. And you do.

I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.