Quotes by Brazilian Authors - Page 3

It tales two to Tao.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Ideals make reason inaccessible.
Floriano Martins
What did the soup say to the tea plate? "You're too shallow for me. I like deep dish to dip right into!" I still keep my British humour in good taste. No room for egos or rumours.
Ana Claudia Antunes
P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.
Paulo Freire
...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.
Paulo Coelho
P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone
Paulo Freire
And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Paulo Coelho
and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams.
Paulo Coelho
For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.
Glenn Greenwald
Don't cry my sonDon't cry, because life is a redeemed fightLife is a fight that will demean the weak personAnd will always exalt the strong ones
Gonçalves Dias
Tears do not replace sweat, at least it never did in me... When I just cry, I'm in the same situation.
Chico Xavier
It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.
Paulo Coelho
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
Paulo Coelho
One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.
Paulo Coelho
I had always been a solitary person. Therefore I had a habit of opening my heart to a piece of paper. I thought that was quite secure. I knew that those words would never go out there, except of course if someone read them.
Pet Torres
Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.
Ana Claudia Antunes
There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can’t enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.
Cristiane Serruya
Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.
Paulo Coelho
I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.
Glenn Greenwald
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.
Paulo Freire
The important thing in life is to be.
Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco
When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.
Paulo Coelho
It's risky, falling in love.""I know that," I answered. "I've been in love before. It's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours."But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love.""What a horrible way to put it," he said.
Paulo Coelho
We should learn to smile as we fall, So much so as when we have it all.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
Paulo Coelho
What I was trying to say,” he whispered, “is that I see you in everything. There isn’t a word for you that means enough, because you’re everything to me.
Veronica Rossi
People just can’t cope with happiness.
Paulo Coelho
A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a good learner. And a good learner is definitely a good listener. A good listener is always looking to what the heart speaks. A spoken heart talks directly to a silent soul. And a silent soul is most of the time in pace with a peaceful thought. A peaceful thought is also a good writer...
Ana Claudia Antunes
We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.
Paulo Coelho
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.
Paulo Coelho
to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.
Paulo Coelho
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.
Paulo Coelho
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.
Paulo Coelho
In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.
Paulo Coelho
Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy 2 c u happy...
Paulo Coelho
I think that we have to create in ourselves, through critical analysis of our practice, some qualities, some virtues as educators. One of them, for example, is the quality of becoming more and more open to feel the feelings of others, to become so sensitive that we can guess what the group or one person is thinking at that moment.
Paolo Freire
In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.
Paulo Coelho
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
Paulo Coelho
Dreams are the language of God.
Paulo Coelho
He had a prince's looks but a pirate's eyes.
Veronica Rossi
Everything depends on One Word : "Maktub" !
Paulo Coelho
you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,
Paulo Coelho
solitude is not absence of love, but its complement
Paulo Coelho
It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.
Glenn Greenwald
I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure
Paulo Coelho
Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.
Paulo Coelho
i had to test your courage,” the stranger said.“courage is the quality most essential to understand the Language of the World.”..“you must not let up, even after having come so far,” he continued. “you must love the desert, but never trust it completely. because the desert tests all men: it challenges every step, and kills those who become distracted.
Paulo Coelho
Don't let the excess of demand make you loose your command and get you further from what you've planned.
Ana Claudia Antunes
I like the way Twitter makes one be more concise.It looks like someone is saying sometthing wise
Ana Claudia Antunes
Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become a part of everything... they become the Soul of the World.
Paulo Coelho
Learn to recognize omens, and follow them
Paulo Coelho
There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
Paulo Coelho
And he always checks that he carries three things with him: faith, hope, and love.
Paulo Coelho
Pay to go inside Neruda's homeA body lies there with no dome.But right there in the front hallLean a fairy against the icy wall.Oh Endless enigmas had the bard!Nice and large and calm backyardEnds In the middle of a rare roomRare portrait of revelishing gloom.Up climbing at the weird snail stairDoes make you grasp for some air.And there's a room with bric-a-brac:Old and precious books all in a pack.Dare saying what I liked most of all?Enjoyed seeing visitors having a ball!
Ana Claudia Antunes
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
Paulo Coelho
And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?""They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend.
Paulo Coelho
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
Paulo Coelho
Friends, we have a hero living among us.
Jorge Amado
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
Clarice Lispector
In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.
Paulo Coelho