Paulo Coelho Quotes

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

I grow beyond my family's limitations and live for myself. It is my turn now.

So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.

You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

You change the world by being yourself.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.