“Everything complicated, attracts.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Tutto ciò che è complicato, attrae.
Source: prevale.net
Variant: Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
“Everything complicated, attracts.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Tutto ciò che è complicato, attrae.
Source: prevale.net
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
The alchemist uses this expression at p. 23, but it is one that does not originate with Coelho, though his work has popularized it.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) Swedish painter
Friedrich's remark to Carl Gustac Carus, as cited by Sigrid Hinz, Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen; Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellchaft, Berlin ,1968 p. 239; translated and quoted in Religious Symbolism in Caspar David Friedrich, by Colin J. Bailey https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m2225&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF, paper; Oct. 1988 - Edinburgh College of Art, p. 19 <br class="br">undated
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.”
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint
As quoted in The Little Lamp (1981) by Eknath Easwaran, p. 80
Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist
'Exile on Main Street: Don DeLillo's Undisclosed Underworld' by David Remnick, The New Yorker, September 15, 1997
Axel Munthe (1857–1949) Swedish physician
Source: supanet.com/find/famous-quotes-by/axel-munthe/a-man-can-stand-a-lot-as-fqb50991/
“I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything hes got.”
Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist
Source: Free the Airwaves! (2002)
“Of course everything in computerology is new; that is at once its attraction, and its weakness.”
James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986) English mathematician
Some Comments from a Numerical Analyst (1971)
Context: Of course everything in computerology is new; that is at once its attraction, and its weakness. Only recently I learned that computers are revolutionizing astrology. Horoscopes by computer!
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)