NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 567

·       "Economic necessities tie man up with reality, and personal religious experience brings this same man face to face with the eternal realities of an ever-expanding and progressing cosmic citizenship."

• ·       “At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.” - Paulo Coelho

  ·       “The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.” - Paulo Coelho

  ·       “‘Everyone believes the world’s greatest lie.’ says the mysterious old man. ‘What is the world’s greatest lie?’ the little boy asks. The old man replies, ‘It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.'” - Paulo Coelho

  ·       “You are what you believe yourself to be.” - Paulo Coelho

  ·       “Don’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.” - Paulo Coelho

  ·       “If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.” - Paulo Coelho

  ·       “Those who wish to learn magic ought to begin by looking around them.” - Paulo Coelho

  ·       “When he was a child, that man wanted to travel, too. But he decided first to buy his bakery and put some money aside. When he’s an old man, he’s going to spend a month in Africa.He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” - Paulo Coelho