Paulo Coelho Quotes

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

If anything matters, then everything matters.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

Everyone serves a purpose.

Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.

To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

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.

There is nothing unimportant in the universe.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

In the end....everything matters.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire.

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

I'm just trying to matter.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.