Paulo Coelho Quotes

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

I believe I was born to breed.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I am. I did not choose writing - it chose me. And I believe it is necessarily that way. Anyone doing this for some other reason should not be.

I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint

Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

The Body thinks it has an agenda that is important. And the Mind imagines that its agenda is vital to your survival. But the older you get the more you realize that it is the Soul's agenda, and only the Soul's agenda, that matters.

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

Once you are ready to truly devote your days and times to what your soul came here to do, you will find your life unimaginably enriched.

Understand that if a deep desire lives in your heart, a dream that is part of your soul's fiber, a path exists to bring it to life.

Each person enters the world "called," like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

You were made for the place where your real #‎ passion meets #‎ compassion because there lies your real purpose.

I have no idea how to start doing something that doesn't connect with me or my soul, somehow.

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

The number of teachers and guides that a soul has depends upon what it seeks to accomplish and its level of awareness. Souls that take upon themselves projects of more magnitude bring to themselves more assistance.