Paulo Coelho Quotes

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values and the things that I love, and my passion, and that's really what helped me move forward. Also, for me just being grateful for what I had in my life versus on focusing on what I was losing, that really helped as well.

I basically came from nothing and turned my life into something.

I chose when I was 30 to change my life entirely and become a director and sit in the dark and that's what I love doing.

Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

Become the most passionate person you know. It'll be contagious.

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.

I don't think about returning to the streets, 'cause I don't have any plans to return to the streets. I'm at another level in my life. Returning to the street - I still be in my streets when I get time to, when it's necessary.

Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether.

The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you're having, tomorrow's going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself.

Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?

I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Passion + Persistence = Possibility

There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.