Paulo Coelho: Citáty v angličtine (page 5)
Paulo Coelho je brazílsky textár a spisovateľ. Citáty v angličtine.“We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.”
Zdroj: Aleph (2011)
Varianta: That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Zdroj: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Kontext: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
“… and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.”
Zdroj: The Fifth Mountain
Maria's diary entry at the age of 17, p. 16.
Eleven Minutes (2003)
“Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.”
Zdroj: The Alchemist (1988), p. 167
“Stop being who you were and become who you are.”
Zdroj: The Zahir (2005), p. 215.
“Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance