Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.

Paulo Coelho

This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.

Paulo Coelho

At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.

Paulo Coelho

Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.

Paulo Coelho

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.

Paulo Coelho

Have courage, be capable of loving.... Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

Paulo Coelho

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

Paulo Coelho

You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.

Paulo Coelho

There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory

Paulo Coelho

There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

Paulo Coelho

Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say

Martin Scorsese

It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of #‎ collaboration .

Marlene Dietrich

I am at heart a gentleman.

Marlene Dietrich

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

Marisha Pessl

Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.

Mariska Hargitay

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

Mariska Hargitay

Your body is not who you are. I don't think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your soul, your compassion, your generosity, your strength and your power? There are so many other things to focus on besides your waistline.

Marjane Satrapi

We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.

Marjane Satrapi

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

Marjane Satrapi

I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.

Marjane Satrapi

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

Marianne Moore

The hands are the heart's messengers.

Marianne Moore

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

Mariah Carey

Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.

Maria Sharapova

I have a Russian heart.

Megan McCafferty

You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start.

Megan McCafferty

You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.

Megan McCafferty

furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it’s like to live without it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.