Paulo Coelho Quote

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.

You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is s...

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.

They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.