Paulo Coelho Quotes
It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
-
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
-
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
-
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
-
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
-
Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
-
There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
-
All diseases run into one, old age.
-
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
-
Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
-
What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
-
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
-
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
-
I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
-
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
-
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
-
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
-
I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
-
I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!
-
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
-
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
-
It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
-
Yeah, I know my way around some guns, which is weird because I have no time for them. I don't like them at all but I can take apart guns and put them back together and stuff, so I didn't have to go to the range. I don't think I will ever to go 'the range' again! I've done enough of that.
-
It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.
