Paulo Cuelho

Quotes

• To realize one’s Personal Legend is a person’s only real obligation.

• When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

• Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

• There is a language in the world that everyone understands. The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

• If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.

• The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

• Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

• Love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love.

• The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

• When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you.

• When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

• The world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse.

• Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.