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When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
— Paulo CoelhoOn the Working LifeEveryone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
— Paulo CoelhoOn Focus & DistractionRemember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
— Paulo CoelhoOn PurposeIf you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
— Paulo CoelhoOn DisciplinePeople learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being.
— Paulo CoelhoOn PurposeWhen we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything ar…
— Paulo CoelhoOn PurposeThe secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
— Paulo CoelhoOn Starting OverIt's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
— Paulo CoelhoOn PurposeThere is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
— Paulo CoelhoOn ConfidenceAnd, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
— Paulo CoelhoOn PurposeA cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
— Oscar WildeOn Money, PlainlySuccess is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
— Oscar WildeOn the Working LifeEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be…
— Oscar WildeOn Focus & DistractionI can resist everything except temptation.
— Oscar WildeOn DisciplineNowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— Oscar WildeOn Money, PlainlyThe only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
— Oscar WildeOn PurposeA man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
— Oscar WildeOn Focus & DistractionNo good deed goes unpunished.
— Oscar WildeOn PurposeWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
— Oscar WildeOn ConfidenceI have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
— Oscar WildeOn Money, PlainlyWith freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
— Oscar WildeOn PurposeAlways forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
— Oscar WildeOn Anxiety & Quiet DaysExperience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
— Oscar WildeOn Starting OverTo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
— Oscar WildeOn PurposeBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar WildeOn ConfidenceI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
— Abraham LincolnOn DisciplineThe best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
— Abraham LincolnOn Anxiety & Quiet DaysMy great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
— Abraham LincolnOn Starting OverFolks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
— Abraham LincolnOn Anxiety & Quiet DaysI am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I…
— Abraham LincolnOn Purpose