Paulo Coelho Quotes

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.