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Quote by Paulo Coelho

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

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Paulo Coelho, born on August 24, 1947, is a renowned Brazilian author and lyricist. His works are characterized by profound philosophical thoughts and rich imagination, with his most famous novel being 'The Alchemist'. more

“My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.”

“I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.”

World Way Trying Self Certain Highest Rage Flames I've Learned Destructive Intensity Unjust Outlets Self Destructive Homicidal

Author:Sidney Poitier

“Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.”

Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

“I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?”

Gay I Realized Parades

Author:Margaret Cho

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

Ifs Inspirational Wells Book Motivational Reading My Own Written Reading Books Sensibility Too Short Well Written Whimsy

Book:Juvenilia -

Source: Juvenilia -

“It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.”

Way Book Reading Company Worry Inspired Friendly Fabulous Good Book Richness Invigorating Richness Of Life

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.”

Mind Book Age Culture Reading Pleasure Mass Encounters Adapted Pleasures Of Life Mass Culture

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”

May Happens Able Flower Optimism Optimistic Inner Beauty

Author:Benjamin Franklin

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