Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter De Vries

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Paulo Coelho

Life is the train and not the station.

Paulo Coelho

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

Paulo Coelho

we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

Paulo Coelho

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

Paulo Coelho

Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off.

Paulo Coelho

And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living.

Paulo Coelho

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

Paulo Coelho

Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

Paulo Coelho

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

Paulo Coelho

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

Paulo Coelho

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.

Paulo Coelho

Believing that you can be sure of everything you've achieved.

Paulo Coelho

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

Paulo Coelho

It is not the life that matters, but the journey.

Paulo Coelho

Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.

Paulo Coelho

We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

Paulo Coelho

The universe conspires to help the dreamer

Paulo Coelho

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

Paulo Coelho

If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.

Paulo Coelho

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Paulo Coelho

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Paulo Coelho

Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on.

Marlene Dietrich

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

Marlon Brando

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Li£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

Marisha Pessl

It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.

Marisha Pessl

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.

Marjane Satrapi

Life is too short to be lived badly.

Marianne Moore

Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.