Quotes by Brazilian Authors - Page 6

You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire,But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.
Ana Claudia Antunes
I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
Clarice Lispector
I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
Paulo Coelho
that's why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream.
Paulo Coelho
Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.
Paulo Coelho
Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed
Clarice Lispector
The Universe Conspires....to get what you truly desire
Paulo Coelho
Making a decision is only the beginning of things
Paulo Coelho
In Science don't confound Normal static electricity To ecstatic eccentricity. Here is what I found: Electric charges As they rise up your hair In contrast with a discharge, Rarity leaves you up in the air!
Ana Claudia Antunes
Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign
José de Alencar
A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to Pierrot
Ana Claudia Antunes
Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny.
Paulo Coelho
Why do they make things so complicated?""So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value.""It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.
Paulo Coelho
I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave
Paulo Coelho
If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.
Paulo Coelho
Arriving back home, I didn’t start to read it. I pretended I didn’t have it, in order to have, later, the shock of discovering it. I opened it hours later, had a few marvelous lines, closed it again, walked around the house, put it off even more by going to eat a piece of bread with butter, pretended I didn’t know where I had left it, found it, opened it for a few instants. I created the most false sense for that covert thing that was joy. Joy would always be covert for me.
Clarice Lispector
Don't confuse pressure with pleasure. For some people it"s not sure if they are having a seizure or ceasure
Ana Claudia Antunes
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
Paulo Coelho
You know what I’ve learned? Most people are like a leaf, letting themselves drift and turn in the air. Eventually, they fall to the ground. But, others— very few others— are like stars. They have light within themselves to be their own guide. Sometimes, we look at the sky and don’t see the stars, because there is too much light bedimming them. To find the stars again, we have to go to a dark place.
Cristiane Serruya
Little,It is a small measureBut can you measure love?
Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco
She absorbed the terror and beauty of him and his world. Of every moment over the past days. All of it, filling her up like the first breath she'd ever taken. And never had she loved life more.
Veronica Rossi
And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
Paulo Coelho
people who believed the world to be an undignified,inglorious place, and who spent their evenings and nightstalking on and on about the mistakes others had made. They werepeople whom solitude had made into the judges of the world,whose verdicts were scattered to the four winds for whoever caredto listen
Paulo Coelho
Busy in a bus or lacking luck you poke to pluck a pick-up truck. Utterly shocked you choke in the lock and check if you chuck a buck or if you are stuck in the muck. So you should lurk in a day like this in such a murky lucky way. In a day when you don't know if you laugh or cry... Errands wait for those who are late in the busiest day.Such day that defies all your senses and makes you want to fly... To fly away!
Ana Claudia Antunes
Every pain is repeated in other places and other lives, every joy is repeated in other places and other lives.
Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco
There were no witnesses to what was about to happen. 'Happen' didn't yet exist. Reality was timeless. Space also didn't exist. The distance between two points was immeasurable. The points themselves could be anywhere, hovering and bouncing. Infinity tangled into itself. There was no here and now. Only Being.
Marcelo Gleiser
She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature
Paulo Coelho
Nothing in this world happens by chance.
Paulo Coelho
It was a prayer that he had never said before, because it was a prayer without words or pleas.
Paulo Coelho
Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice..You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice.
Ana Claudia Antunes
To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.
Paulo Coelho
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.
Paulo Coelho
I want the material of things. Humanity is drenched with humanization, as if that were necessary; and that false humanization trips up man and trips up his humanity. A thing exists that is fuller, deafer, deeper, less good, less bad, less pretty. Yet that thing too runs the risk, in our coarse hands, of becoming transformed into "purity", our hands that are coarse and full of words.
Clarice Lispector
Charity has an embedded message of alleviating the consequences of poverty and not of eradicating it. As the evidence suggested, charity seems to be pervert form of social mechanism that validates contemporary social inequality maintained by neoliberalism policies under the capitalist ideology. It seems problematic that the world’s current ideology i.e. capitalism alienation is the main contributor of contemporary issues with poverty world-wide and the solution presented to this social problem is charity. In addition, charity seems to be the humanitarian side of a system that advocates and promotes exploitation.
Bruno De Oliveira
...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.
Paulo Freire
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 to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they speak there.
Paulo Coelho
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo Coelho
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.
Paulo Coelho
Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.
Paulo Coelho
A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.
Paulo Coelho
Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.
Paulo Coelho
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.
Paulo Coelho
No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?
Paulo Freire
Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost.
Clarice Lispector
But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through whichonly a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
Paulo Coelho
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 the war ends.
Paulo Coelho
A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would
Paulo Coelho
She could have lived every minute she'd had with him better. She should have always spoken the best words she could to him.
Veronica Rossi
If you want to heal a broken heart,Be smart! That's all an ancient art.Start by loving the very small partsThat were left there shattered apart.
Ana Claudia Antunes
They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time I stopped?' And they all reply: 'If I did, there would be no meaning to my life.'As if they actually knew what the meaning of life was.
Paulo Coelho
I'd rather be on the ground than underTo feel the heavy rain and the thunder.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again.
Cora Coralina
There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.
Floriano Martins
Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think it is and it is so.
João Cabral de Melo Neto
People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what
Paulo Coelho
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
Hélder Câmara
American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.
Glenn Greenwald
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Paulo Coelho
...he would tell stories about the Holy City, about Solomon, a just king, a poet-king, a monarch with a thousand concubines. We weren't quite sure what concubines were, but we guessed: a concubine ... Concubines! One thousand! One thousand women in all colours and shapes - but all of them sexy, of course - one thousand - one thousand raving beauties lying side by side on a bed (what a bed! How wide it must have been!), all of them smiling, all of them reaching out their arms, all of them saying something in Hebrew - but the meaning was unmistakeable - "Come here, sweety." One thousand women. If one were to spend twenty, or fifteen minutes with each one of them, how long would it take to...? A problem that our math teacher never assigned us for homework...!
Moacyr Scliar