Great Throughts Treasury

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Paulo Coelho

Brazilian Lyricist and Novelist

"Let me speak abroad with that woman. You know I hate strangers. I hate to be under the rule of others all the time and I have to withhold my fear, and my emotions, and twice the citizen. You valiant young, talented, not afraid of others never. You are wrong. Everything scares me. I avoid peeks, and smiles, and close contact. You are the only person who actually spoke to him. Or do you not notice?"

"Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go."

"Let us be what he says to the child, who is still alive in our hearts? nor let it prey to fear, because it is a single, but we never listen to him, almost? to give instructions to him to hold his hands and our existence, that 'the child knows with certainty that today is different from the day that will be followed ... to do what we can in order to feel once again that he is loved? If we listen to our soul dwells atopic child, our eyes will shine again? you will not lose the link to life."

"Let's go back to the train station,' she said. 'Or, rather, let's come back to this room, to the day when we sat here together for the first time and you recognized that I existed and gave me a gift. That was your first attempt to enter my soul, and you weren't sure whether or not you were welcome. But, as you say in your story, human beings were once divided and now seek the embrace that will reunite them. That is our instinct. But it is also our reason for putting up with all the difficulties we meet in that search. I want you to look at me, but I want you to take care that I don't notice. Initial desire is important because it is hidden, forbidden, not permitted. You don't know whether you are looking at your lost half or not; she doesn't know either, but something is drawing you together, and you must believe that it is true you are each other's other half."

"Let's run away from love or blind her surrender? Whichever is less destructive?"

"Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating."

"Life always teaches us more than the Road to Santiago does,? he answered. ?But we don?t have much faith in what life teaches us."

"Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream."

"Liberty is not the absence of commitments, but it is the ability to choose what is best for me, and compel him myself."

"Life does not play with marked cards. Winning or losing is part of it."

"Life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it."

"Life inside Villette is quite as life outside, in the inside and outside meet people in groups and Lipton own secrets, and do not allow any strange element that disturbs the modest living. They do the things they do with the familiarity and studying materials worthless and having fun, because it is supposed to enjoy, and they are not what others are doing to fend on their own? and in the extreme case, they were watching the news on TV, as we often do, but they assert their living happily in a world overflowing with problems and grievances !"

"Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once."

"Life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it."

"Life is a game dizzy, dizzy fast; life is a parachute games; it gives us the opportunity, we soared somersault and back; life is a climb; it wants to climb to the highest peak and you feel angry, frustrated when you cannot control it."

"Life is a strong and amazing game, life is parachuting, is to risk falling and getting up again, is climbing, we want to get to the top yourself, and feel dissatisfied and distressed when not achieved."

"Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely."

"Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow."

"Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant."

"Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by."

"Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."

"Life is an act of faith."

"Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything."

"Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly."

"Life is the train and not the station."

"Life is the moment we're living right now."

"Life is too short - or long - to afford it so bad to me live the luxury."

"Life is really generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend."

"Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds."

"Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death."

"Life is too short to waste time complaining. Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear."

"Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other."

"Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to."

"Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we?re living right now."

"Life without cause is a life without result."

"Life-long training session in preparation for the following. Alone present challenges we face to face with joy and placidly."

"Life without cause is a life without effect."

"Life would be a party for you, a grand festival because life is the moment we're living right now."

"Like all human beings, he thought money could buy whatever he wanted."

"Life is a constant risk, and anyone who forgets this will be unprepared for the challenges that fate may have in store."

"Like the children we will never ever cease to be."

"Live each day as if it were my last."

"Listening is difficult. In our prayers are always trying to forgive our sins, and ask what we would like to happen to us. But God knows all this, and sometimes asks us to listen to what he says our universe, and be patient."

"Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams."

"Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself."

"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly."

"Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility."

"Like the sun, life spreads its light in all directions."

"Listen to your heart. He knows all things, because it came from the soul of the world and one day return there."

"Live with such love that even if you accidentally go to hell... Satan himself back into heaven."