Paulo Coelho 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beauty, Eye, Doors

• A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fear

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 18, 2014

• 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

  Waiting, Needs, Purpose

• Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Names, Ties

• And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Years, Miracle

• 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

  Boys, Alchemist, Trying

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

• Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

  Paulo Coelho

  Alchemist, Luck, Beginners

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2014

• But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Grateful, Boys, Dawn

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.8, Harper Collins

• 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

  Life, Happiness, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

• The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Self, Suffering

• I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Purpose, Information

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