-I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
-Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
– Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.
-There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
-Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
-I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
-Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions
-Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
-Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
-When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
-So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
-Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
-When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
-Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
-You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
-You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
-When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
-Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
-The more
in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful
you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to
reality.
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-No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.
-You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
-Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
-Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
-All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
-We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
-Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
-We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
-What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
-I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
-I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
-Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
-Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.
-I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
-With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.
-The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It’s like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
-The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.
-I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
-Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
-Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
-If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
-When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated – but haters are losers. It’s not good to feed this aspect. It’s more intelligent to be constructive.
-The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people’s opinions.
-You should treat a muse like a fairy.
-I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‘Oh my God, what a blessing.’ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
-I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.
-Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.
-The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
-I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
-Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-It’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
-I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
-I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.
-I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
-People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.
-What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
-When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.
-I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge
-Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.
-I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
-About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
-However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
-The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.
-Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
-When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.
-Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
-Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
-I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
-Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I’m going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.
-I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
-Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.
-I have spent every New Year’s Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It’s a place with meaning for me.
-I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
-In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
-I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.
-This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.
-Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.
-I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
-I’m not a person that socializes very well.
-My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
-I had this
dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
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