Paulo Coelho Quotes

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.

'Karwaan' was meant for me.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.

Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.