Paulo Coelho Quotes

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community...Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own

The world does not owe any man a living, but we all owe one another a living.

Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

When approached right, citizens never fail to shoulder their responsibilities.

We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.

If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

I look around and there are needs that people have. Places have needs. These times have needs, and I have the education and the ability to communicate with it and help to solve those needs.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.