Paulo Coelho Quotes

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

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.

Diminish the influence of fate

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

Wherever people find themselves in trouble, or at some kind of crossroads, the series proclaims you are free to choose. That's the deepest lesson of 'Star Wars.'

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?