Paulo Coelho Quotes

Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer." From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.

You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

As we develop, I just see us following our heart on this musical journey.

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

‎"Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.

Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

You have to learn to follow your heart. You can’t let other people pressure you into being something that you’re not. If you want God’s favor in your life, you must be the person He made you to be, not the person your boss wants you to be, not even the person your parents or your husband wants you to be. You can’t let outside expectations keep you from following your own heart.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

I went to sleep dreaming of Malawi, and all the things made possible when your dreams are powered by your heart.

They ignore what is deep and true to a man's heart, his real passions, and simply try to shape him up through various forms of pressure.

Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if you follow your heart you'll wind up doing exactly what you want to do. I was fortunate enough to have enough of a foundation with people behind me to do what was in my heart. And it's all worked out.

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction