Quotes by Brazilian Authors - Page 5

All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an unbroken stream of Aristotelian shock.
Vilém Flusser
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.
Paulo Coelho
He kissed her lustfully. Mindlessly.Senselessly.
Cristiane Serruya
P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new "Culture of Silence".
Paulo Freire
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.
Paulo Coelho
Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.
Paulo Coelho
It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work
Paulo Coelho
If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again- only this time with more wisdom.But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.
Paulo Coelho
It didn't take much prompting for Cariocas who were sick of living with violence to advocate violence as a solution.
Juliana Barbassa
To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation.
Paulo Coelho
I have always believed that in the lives of individuals, just as in society at large, the profoundest changes take place within a very reduced time frame.When we least expected 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 that we are not ready yet.The challenge will not wait.Life does not look back.A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
Paulo Coelho
It is not important how they treat the most privileged (or most famous people) [in a country], but how they treat the less privileged ones.
Christina Rickardsson
Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.
Cristiane Serruya
Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
Machado de Assis
So he could not be hasty or impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.God placed them along my path. He had surprised himself with the thought. Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of this world, Like eating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a job. he had never thought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what he should do.
Paulo Coelho
Lay a golden egg.After you built a nest,You wait for a leg.And you land next. Now you hope and pray.Expect for the best. Go on with no delay. Get it right at last.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention.
Paulo Coelho
solitude is not absence of love, but its complement
Paulo Coelho
At life's most significant moments, we are always alone
Paulo Coelho
How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?
Paulo Coelho
life is delicate, its fragile, it's a precious thing. you never know when you're going to lose it. Live life when you can because you never know which second will be your last.
Patricia Vanasse
Those who try to kill the body violate God's law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God's law, even though their crime is less visible to others."By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Paulo Coelho
You know, when life presents you only good things and you idealize them to your way.And abruptly it comes up an avalanche of catastrophes and destroys all your beautiful dreams, as a war that destroys an entire country or a volcano that devastates forests.That's how I feel and I write in this diary 'How everything should have been' in my life.
Pet Torres
It must be wonderful to marry the person whom we really love.” Lany said dazed.Antony turned his gaze from the moon and faced the girl's face.“You have ever had that feeling.” He said looking into her dark eyes.She shrugged as she was embarrassed at the coherent thought of the boy.“I never had that feeling, because I never loved that man.
Pet Torres
The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...”Leione
Pet Torres
Tell me about your life since I last saw you." | "There are no great mysteries to tell. My path is always ther, and I do everything I can to follow it in a dignified way." | "What is your path?" | "The path of someone seeking love." | "And love's path is really complicated." | "Because on that path we can go either to heaven or to hell?
Paulo Coelho
Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.
Joaquim Nabuco
I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.
Paulo Coelho
Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.
Marcelo Gleiser
Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously.
Paulo Coelho
All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning
Paulo Coelho
Ideals make reason inaccessible.
Floriano Martins
She felt vulnerable and alone and had a sense that a great opportunity was slipping through her fingers. Once again, she felt that life was not treating her as it treated other people: it gave her every chance to achieve something, and just when she was close to her objective, the ground opened up and swallowed her. That's how it had been with her studies, with certain boyfriends, with certain dreams she had never shared with anyone.
Paulo Coelho
Come back with me, Aria. Be with me.
Veronica Rossi
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
She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in the journey, but there was also great beauty. She'd seen it standing on rooftops and in green eyes and in the smallest, ugliest rock.
Veronica Rossi
When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.
Paulo Coelho
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the sceptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians would use).
Paulo Coelho
And he always checks that he carries three things with him: faith, hope, and love.
Paulo Coelho
How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.
Ana Claudia Antunes
As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.
Paulo Coelho
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
Paulo Coelho
You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die.
Paulo Coelho
Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words.
Clarice Lispector
I like the way Twitter makes one be more concise.It looks like someone is saying sometthing wise
Ana Claudia Antunes
Loyalty, love and respect perhaps have never been expounded with such agility like this one ‘Loyalty has its roots in respect and respect is the fruit of Love, and Love drives out the demons of the imagination – which distrust everything and everyone – and, instead, returns purity to our gaze’. He cites that ‘Loyalty can never be imposed by force, fear, insecurity or intimidation’. ‘And because it is a choice, it will never tolerate betrayal, but will always be generous with mistakes’.
Paulo Coelho
I've learned that the only things we are in control of are the choices we make at any one given moment.
Patricia Vanasse
If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...
Paulo Coelho
Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?
Samuel Park
Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.
Paulo Coelho
...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.
Machado de Assis
They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life
Veronica Rossi
In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
Machado de Assis
God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.
Paulo Coelho
The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according the the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
Paulo Coelho
Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.
Paulo Coelho
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
Gisele Bundchen
Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know that I'm on my way. It doesn't matter to me if I'm chasing the clouds away. North or South, East or West I live my life to the fullest.
Ana Claudia Antunes