Paulo Coelho Quotes

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.

Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

Every why has a wherefore.

Consequence is no coincidence.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

Everything counts! Everything you do helps or hurts, adds up or takes away.