Paulo Coelho Quotes

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.

If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.

I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?

The only thing you want is to come back alive.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.

Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.

Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.