“Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance
“Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance
“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130 <!-- also p. 156 -->
Context: Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
“We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.”
Paulo Coelho book Aleph
Source: Aleph (2011)
“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
