Quotes about Purpose
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
— Paulo Coelho
To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
— Paulo Coelho
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
— Paulo Coelho
Nothing in this world happens by chance.
— Paulo Coelho
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.
— Paulo Coelho
God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change
— Paulo Coelho
God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.
— Paulo Coelho
We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized.
— Paulo Coelho
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
— Paulo Coelho
When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.
— Paulo Coelho
Everything will happen as was written by the Lord, replied the prophet. There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. What reason? That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.
— Paulo Coelho
I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.
— Paulo Coelho