Paulo Coelho Quotes

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

You dream what you're supposed to do.

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

I had always wanted to pursue music. It was always a dream, but it was always a dream in the sense of, when you're young, 'I want to be president' or 'I want to be an astronaut and fly to Mars.' That's what it was to me.

I remember quite clearly a time when I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I was six, I was worry-free, and I aspired to be an actor-slash-pizza maker. To me, the decision was simple; that is what would make me happy.

When I was a young girl, I used to dream about what I would be when I grew up. I thought that I wanted to be a nurse, then a teacher, even a pilot at one point.

Man is what his dreams are.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.

When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.

But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

Don't ever think it's too late for you or that you're too old to dream and have goals.