Quotes about Purpose
No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. No one sacrifices the most important thing she possesses: love. No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.
— Paulo Coelho
I know that God is putting me through the fire of afflictions. I've accepted the blows that life has dealt me, and sometimes I feel as cold and indifferent as the water that inflicts such pain on the steel. But my one prayer is this: 'Please, God, my Mother, don't give up until I've taken on the shape that you wish for me. Do this by whatever means you think best, for as long as you like but never ever throw me on the scrap heap of souls.
— Paulo Coelho
One should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm.
— Paulo Coelho
When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one purpose only: you need to change everything and move forward.
— Paulo Coelho
Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.
— Paulo Coelho
I only know that a life without cause is a life without effect.
— Paulo Coelho
Happiness is the only goal worth pursuing
— Paulo Coelho
Do not try to make the road shorter, but travel it in such a way that every action leaves the land more fertile and the landscape more beautiful.
— Paulo Coelho
Spirit world in dire need of your happiness.
— Paulo Coelho
We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow
— Paulo Coelho
Worse than the composers' suffering, though, was the fact that the girl was playing the music with such soul because she knew she was going to die. And am not going to die? Where is my soul that I might play the music of my own life with such enthusiasm?
— Paulo Coelho
The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
— Paulo Coelho