PAULO COELHO – FAMOUS QUOTES

PAULO COELHO – FAMOUS QUOTES

Paulo Coelho  - The Brazilian writer, is one of the best-selling authors of all time (The writer has sold an estimated 350 million books). His notable works includes “The Alchemist” , “Brida” and “Eleven Minutes”. His works are impressive with its simplicity and its philosophical elements. Paulo was a rebellious teenager and his parents committed him to an asylum three times. When he was 38 years old, he had a spiritual awakening in Spain and wrote about it in his first book “The Pilgrimage” then he wrote his second book “The Alchemist” which made him famous.

Ø When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Ø Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Ø So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Ø Life was always a matter of weighting right moment to act.

Ø No one can lie; no one can hide anything, when he looks directly in to someone’s eyes.

Ø Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Ø The more violent the storm, quicker it passes.

Ø Every blessings ignored become a curse.

Ø One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Ø 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.

Ø When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

Ø 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 fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

Ø Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Ø If you are honest, people will cheat you. Be honest anyway.

Ø  The secret of life though is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Ø A life spent resisting temptations is a wasted life.

Ø Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.

Ø Don’t give up; normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door.

Ø If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Ø You will never be able to escape from your heart, so it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Ø Beauty is the greatest seducer of Man.

Ø There are three things that a child can teach an adult, to be happy for no reason; to be always busy doing something and to know how to demand with all one’s might, what one wants.

Ø What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside, So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Ø When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being whom I am I found myself.

Ø Don’t waste your time with explanations; people only hear what they want to hear.

Ø If someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.

Ø When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us become better too.

Ø People are capable, at any time in their lives of doing what they dream of.

Ø Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

Ø Remember that where ever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

Ø Conflict is essential to evolution.

Ø Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly and forgive quickly.

Ø You are what you believe yourself to be.

Ø If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule

Charles Dickens

Charles  Dickens

Quick Facts

Author Name Charles John Huffam Dickens

Nationality British

Birth Date February 7, 1812

Death Date June 9, 1870

Place of Birth Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Place of Death Higham, Kent, United Kingdom

Charles John Huffam Dickens is a famous British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social commentator.Dickens was born in England in 1812 and died in 1870.His notable works includes Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol,Nicholas Nickleby,David Copperfield,A Tale of Two Cities and Great expectations.Dickens is considered as one of the most important and influential writers of the 19th century.

Charles Dickens had a bitter childhood, but he was lucky enough to attend school.His father, John Dickens,worked as a clerk for the Navy.His mother's name was Elizabeth Barrow.Charles had seven brothers and sisters.Born in Portsmouth,Dickens left school to work in a factory at the age of 12,when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison.
He worked there for three years. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five Novellas hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles.

Here are some interesting facts about Charles Dickens. Dickens was keenly interested in the paranormal, and has even been linked to the famous paranormal investigation group “The Ghost Club” of London.The Dickens family had a pet raven  named Grip, which he had stuffed when it died in 1841. He was obsessive compulsive,reportedly always re-arranging his hotel furniture and having sleep with his head pointing towards north.In his study he had a secret door which was designed like a bookcase filled with fake books rumored to include titles like Noah’s Arkitecture and a nine-volume set titled Cat’s Lives.Dickens appeared on the British £10 note.

Charles Dickens died on 9th June 1870.He suffered a stroke after completing a full day’s work on his novel in progress,Edwin Drood.

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

DAVID AND GOLIATH: UNDERDOGS, MISFITS AND THE ART OF BATTLING GIANTS

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Born: 6 March 1927, Aracataca, Colombia

Died: 17 April 2014, Mexico City, Mexico

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. His fiction work introduced readers to magical realism, which combines more conventional storytelling with vivid fantasy. His novels – “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera” have drawn worldwide audiences, and he won a Nobel Prize in 1982.

Márquez was born on March 6, 1927.He grew up with his maternal grant parent – his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. Marquez’s first novel “Leaf Storm” was published in 1955. His best-known novel, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, published in 1967. Other major works include “Love in the Time of Cholera” (1985) and “The General in His Labyrinth” (1989). In 1999, Garcia Marquez was diagnosed with cancer and was died on April 17, 2014, at age 87 at his Mexico City home. With lyricism and marked wisdom, Marquez has been recognized as one of the most remarkable storytellers of the 20th century.

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera