Paulo Coelho Quotes

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you've sinned against God.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

Thank God for the journey.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.