Paulo Coelho Quotes

Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

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

Man must choose his world

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

It is human choices that move events.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.

God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what kind of being we're going to be through our free choices, what kind of action we are going to do through our decisions.

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

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.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.