Paulo Coelho Quotes About Responsibility

• Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Responsibility, Tasks

• The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

  Paulo Coelho

  Responsibility, Oil, Alchemist

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 05, 2014

• His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Responsibility

• Learn from someone who has already been up there: no matter how unique you feel, there is always someone who has had the same dream before you and ended up leaving marks that can make your journey easier; places to hang the rope, trails, broken branches to make the walking easier. The climb is yours, so is the responsibility, but don't forget that the experience of others can help a lot.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

• An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others.

  Paulo Coelho

  Responsibility, Energy, Encounters

• All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Decision

• We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

  Paulo Coelho

  Responsibility, Captivity, Used

• Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.

  Paulo Coelho

  Responsibility, Understanding, Gold

• Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities.

  Paulo Coelho

  Responsibility, Warrior, Light

• The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Latin, Responsibility, Joy

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