Paulo Coelho Quotes

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."

The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.

Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. I think people like who I am, and I like who I am, and I want to be a better version of myself every single day. So stop controlling me!

Individuality' is the key to success.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

I want an identity outside of my work.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.