What is the driving force in your life?

by Paulo Coelho on January 25, 2008

What is the driving force in your life?
Love,
Paulo

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kamy February 20, 2011 at 7:54 pm

My failures and my victories
My past and my present
My painful and my joyous moments
The good and less good people I know or knew
Children
Animals
Insects
Vegetation
The sun and the rain
The storm and the blue sky
The snow
The sea
The stars
Everything beautiful or less beautiful in this existence And more…

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farida February 12, 2011 at 9:15 am

the desire and hope to meet him one day and complete myself with his love and being is wat drives me to every comong day, with hope, and fear and anticipation and disappointments

the small pleasures and moments of love i share with my family and others and joys i come across ins hape of inspiration, beauty, the impulses and thought and feeling shtat make me cry smile, dance, sing. and Gods endless love that flows in my life in shape of those loving souls which surround me , embrace me uohold me through every turn and drop and peak of my life are all thsoe precisous reasons that keep me living drive me every morning and every night.

without these pieces that build my world i wud have never known the pleasures and warmth and peace and love that i feel.

Love, faith, appreciation and gratitude are the biggest most essential stuff that make me who i am. and my need to constantly improve myself, educate myself, evolve myself, and prepare myself to receive more lessons, more wisdom, more knowledge , more love, more positivity is wat drives me , moticvates me to wake up every morning.

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Urfi February 7, 2011 at 3:04 pm

My entire existence …me..the life that i’ve imagined with myself along with the people who loved,love me,and who will love..i have absorbed all my this existence in my dreams..This picture of myself drives me.. and the day when i will realize that all my dreams come true..i will stop living.
Thats why i dont stop dreaming..my dreams drive me.

Urfi

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Rajiv February 7, 2011 at 10:24 am

Very intriguing question. … but I will try

I have always thought that every individual must prove something to himself and the world. I have learnt today that failure is also part and parcel of the journey towards success.

I seek God. I sought Him earlier because I thought I should get His powers and be Almighty. Today I seek not power nor glory. I seek to dissolve my mind into a crystal and lose my individuality for His Love to flow through.

I guess I can say that this is my driving force

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Eileen January 28, 2011 at 5:03 am

to live is my driving force…..I remember when I lost a loved one she was very important in my life, I felt I lost everything, because I relied on her, I was young too…what kept me going was survival, I wanted to live because I knew my loved one would have wanted to see me survive!

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HOPE February 21, 2011 at 1:54 am

How true!! I totally agree!! Live Life and let noone or anything stop you! Create ur own destiny!
I feel the only thing in life that really matters are the small things, not material things.
Mainly, be thankful for good health, family and good friends. Be grateful for what you have, not what you want…
The rest is unpredictable and a fascinating journey good or bad!!!

Liisa Hätönen January 17, 2011 at 1:29 pm

The driving force in my life seems to be change… I need big changes to keep me awake and make my life feel intresting and exciting enough… I´m not sure if that is good…! I just need to rock the boat!

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mathilda January 16, 2011 at 11:22 pm

…is love. but sometimes love can become my negativity. when i fight with my love, i feel broken inside, no matter how small the matter is. big or small, it leaves a mark on my heart. i love this person to death, and i feel peace when we’re not fighting… peace and love.

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HOPE February 21, 2011 at 1:57 am

“All you need is love, love, love is all you need…..”
The Beatles :)
Relationships can be a love/ hate balancing act!

aashish January 16, 2011 at 5:30 am

the feeling of live itself is a driving force. but i do get distracted from my way.. feel down.. its all part of life.. i’m certain i wil find my way!

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kit January 10, 2011 at 11:45 pm

My FAMILY and RED are the important driving force in my life.

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Miriam January 10, 2011 at 8:40 pm

Hope, Faith and Love!

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Trupti January 10, 2011 at 12:38 pm

My dead mother.

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sea December 20, 2010 at 4:46 am

To A,

Pain is not dissolved easily.Its presence asks of you to endure it with graceful acceptance and not looking back with the painful situation with so much bitterness. Choose to see your inner light and follow it where it leads you.

You are not alone.

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meenakshi December 19, 2010 at 8:50 pm

my positivity…

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Anamika December 8, 2010 at 1:54 am

my driving force is …?????i dont know myself….i think my desire to overcome my unhappy past is the driving force that make me do certain things in my life…..

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Khar is ma November 13, 2010 at 1:20 pm

The tram.

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anirudh November 13, 2010 at 1:00 pm

The driving force in my life is nothing… Sounds ridiculous? I think not. Something forms from nothing.

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Seek November 14, 2010 at 6:45 am

I have heard this once before

Seek November 13, 2010 at 11:57 am

Spirit is my driving force, driving me to nurture my temple (body) in order to use physical touch and expressions as a means to share energy.

Because we fear loosing the physical body, we become obsessed with it and create distractions from the truth, thus we loose focus of our spirit… our driving force.

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Sara D. October 22, 2010 at 2:24 pm

Achieving my dream.

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Daniela October 22, 2010 at 7:51 pm

The principle of life, the utter love for being alive which inhabits and motorizes me.

maria October 10, 2010 at 3:28 pm

living a life of giving

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Marie-Christine October 4, 2010 at 11:31 am

I am a v.nice person and I am still smiling and I like to chere.:)
I also have a very good friend – That helps -
Love and gratitude.

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My three wifes September 30, 2010 at 4:37 pm

My Books- which keep me alive
My friends-which make me lively
My family- Which makes what i am

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sonya September 24, 2010 at 8:34 pm

My faith in god , my parents and my two lovely daughters….I. Thank the almighty lord for everything I have!!!I feel complete and content…

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baylon nancy September 24, 2010 at 7:06 pm

the next good morning of each beautiful day…is my driving force of life…thanks to the CREATOR of everything that exists…

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eleonora September 24, 2010 at 2:24 pm

l’amore!!!!!!!

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Guru Talks September 17, 2010 at 8:35 pm

It is my “will power”

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Saima Ali September 9, 2010 at 6:45 pm

the driving force in my life is death, as this is the only force stretching my existence towards something real i was born with…

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Otacilio Andrade August 29, 2010 at 5:26 pm

Nossos sonhos, pois eles nos fazem querer acordar todos os dias, até Deus tem seus sonhos, tudo o que ele faz pelo ser humano é por causa dos nossos sonhos e os sonhos dEle, sem sonhos não há objetivos, uma vida sem objetivos; uma vida sem vida.

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Karolmar August 15, 2010 at 4:38 am

El amor por mis hijas es la fuerza que impulsa hoy en día mi vida. Por ella pido todos los dias a Dios, que les de mucha salud, bienestar, felicidad, y pido por mi para poder estar a su lado protegiendolas, cuidandolas, amandolas y ayudandolas a ser unas mujeres de bien. Son mi adoración

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Nasser Rehan August 11, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Love.
Love,
Nasser

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akriti July 28, 2010 at 5:56 pm

life as it happens – is my driving force :)

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sujith July 28, 2010 at 5:04 pm

quick heal from past memories before killing u

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isabelle July 28, 2010 at 4:35 pm

“The love” my driving force, but….
I dont understand, why I can’t know happiness? why I accept that one devotes me that a negligible part of his time? why I feel so alone? why I have such an amount of love to give and that one returns only one small portion from there to me? I am lost in my thoughts and loses my love of life…

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Hanaa July 7, 2010 at 5:06 pm

love and faith

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davinder July 7, 2010 at 12:20 pm

Every second living with FAITH… a faith in my inner ….. a faith that i am always secured in this world…. world of my god… a faith that he bless me always…. and that faith always grow more and more when ever i remind myself that almighty nurtured me with food, security when i was inside my mom…. when he( the almighty God) takes care of me what rest i should worry off

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Madgi July 6, 2010 at 12:26 am

Loving you!

The sun,the stars,the moon,the sky,the earth,the sea,my friends,my family,music,great food,great wine,writing,poetry,reading,arts…all the beauty of this world..being awake while the world is sleeping.Making love when I want,eat when I want,drink when I want,being crazy while being serious,sleeping while the world is awake,that smile,those eyes,those hands,that voice,that parfume..that heart,that love :)

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Zhilvan June 30, 2010 at 12:23 am

Wow, this was a good question. My driving force is to FOLLOW THE SIGNS! The signs is my destiny and my purpose, i know that after every sign.. i will have the opportunity to take something from the world and also give something to the world.
I allways follow the signs they will lead me to GOD.
I trust in my signs and therefore i trust in my self!

Someday i will be so close to my purpose that i will have the energy to make thousands of people feel lucky and happy, and i will have so much love to give that i will live for others because that is the only life worth to live.
Zhilvan

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hana June 28, 2010 at 9:57 pm

to have the biggest adventure ever of life and nature
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faith

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Almost Insightful June 20, 2010 at 7:28 pm

My parents. I want to make them happy.

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Tauseef Ali Kazmi June 1, 2010 at 3:20 pm

ma driving force z ma passion n obsession 2 convert ma dreams into reality…!!!n i will do that,bcz i m under the debt of this and ma Upcuming Generations as well..

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Sofia Kalinova June 1, 2010 at 2:55 pm

I think the driving force of mine is need. Need is basic motivator as well as curiosity.The need of love i assume as my basic driving force.

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Dave C May 22, 2010 at 12:56 am

It is the drive to uncover my destiny, to learn who I am and what I have to bring to the party; and most importantly, what do I do with the knowledge.

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paula May 16, 2010 at 6:20 pm

my driving force is the meaning of life, if you´re still here its because you can do something for the world youre special and your life will change the world somehow;
the difficult part its to find the meaning of yourselfs life and to let yourself feel what your dreams are..
let yourself dream!!try to live great dreams without being called crazy-guy..

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ram May 8, 2010 at 1:21 am

surviving…the act of surviving when I don’t know where exactly I belong

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RAK!!! May 7, 2010 at 6:29 pm

My Dream…..to become a social worker….and my faith in myself and in my dream that it will become real someday for sure….
these 2 things have so much strength in them, that they are getting the whole universe to work hard in making them to come true!….just for me!!!
Dream and Faith….. these 2 things together are really great that can change your life forever!!!!

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sahana May 7, 2010 at 9:34 am

Driving force in my life is nature. Nature heals and natuure drives.

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Sumati May 4, 2010 at 2:18 am

Faith – in another day, a better day, a happier day ahead , for me , and for all those around me .

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diaratos May 4, 2010 at 2:10 am

the end drives me..the imprint that will define me after am long gone! my impact on the world..even if it’l only be a speck.

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---- May 4, 2010 at 1:51 am

My driving force is my breath. I’m still breathing, so I have no other choice but to keep going until I lose my breath.

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mey May 4, 2010 at 12:50 am

mom! i hate her but she is my driving force. i hate/love her. i want to defend /attack her all the time.

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Sina April 29, 2010 at 1:28 am

God’s voice leading my way and picking me up from the ground again and again.

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