Paulo Coelho Quotes

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

Life is a risk.

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

I like being thrown out of my comfort zone.

I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don't want to shrink back just because something isn't easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can't and I can.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Leap and grow your wings on the way down

If you don’t jump, the wings never come.

Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.