Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their...

Success does not come from having one’s work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one’s name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that’s difficult to do when we’re used...

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead...

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his...

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what...

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Va’ a prendere le tue cose,” ha detto. ” I sogni richiedono fatica.

I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?Well,necessary or not, they happen.When we first begin fighting for our dream, we’ve no experience and make many mistakes.The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to...

The Warrior knows that no man is an island.He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation,...

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

It’s true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend.

Kalau seseorang sungguh-sungguh menginginkan sesuatu, seisi jagat raya bahu-membahu membantu orang itu memuwudkan impiannya.

People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on...

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising...

we who determine how quickly time passes.

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how...

People are all crazy… but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you’re not sure you’re doing the right thing. You’ll never go wrong if, when...

The completion is always more difficult that the beginning

I’ve met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I’m not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months’...

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know...

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

Once someone asked me, “What do you want to be your epitaph?” So I said, “Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.

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.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

También en su mundo distante, más distante que la propia luna, la música era capaz de penetrar y hacer milagros.

Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need...

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I felt as if nature was in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

I believe in signs….what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we...

The Warrior of the Light knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.He has learned from the archer that, in order to shoot his arrow any distance, he must hold...

She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates to Jesus, is based on a different thing: Mary initiated...

At life’s most significant moments, we are always alone

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

Le cerveau humain est fascinant : nous oublions une odeur avant de la sentir de nouveau, nous effaçons une voix de notre mémoire avant de l’entendre une nouvelle fois, et même les émotions qui paraissaient...

She didn’t quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for...

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying...

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every...

For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste.In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed. In solitude, they will understand and respect the love...

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl’s eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear.Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when...