Paulo Coelho Quotes

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom is control in your own life.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.

It's my life and I prefer choosing my path. I don't follow anyone else.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.