Paulo Coelho Quotes

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

Everything you touch touches you.

I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.

Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large.

Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.