Paulo Coelho Quotes About Choices

• I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiring, Views

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

• If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Hope, Pain

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 19, 2016

• The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias, and to fight for our dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Believe

  "The Alchemy of Pilgrimage". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 14, 2014.

• It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Running, Inspiration

• You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Two, Choices, Mind

  "Veronika Decides to Die". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1998.

• And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Decision, Choices

• Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

  Paulo Coelho

  Choices, Battle, Defeat

  Paulo Coelho (2013). “Manuscript Found in Accra”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

• The person who does not make a choice dies in the eyes of the Lord, even though he continues to breathe and to walk about the streets. For a man has to choose, therein lies his strength: in the power of his decisions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Lying, Eye

• I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Mean, Fate

  "Paulo Coelho: 'I had an enormous amount of fun being a hippy" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2014.

• I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen

  Paulo Coelho

  Choices, Decision, Losing

• It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less

  Paulo Coelho

  Choices, Matter

• She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now.

  Paulo Coelho

  Regret, Thinking, Choices

• No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.

  Paulo Coelho

  Choices, Feelings

• If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.

  Paulo Coelho

  Choices, Reason, Wanted

• To believe in your choice you don't need to prove that other people's choices are wrong.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, People, Choices

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 06, 2010

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