Quote

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

Paulo Coelho

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
Actor
Blogger
Composer
Lyricist
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Researcher
Science Fiction Writer
Songwriter
Writer
Rio
Paulo Coelho de Souza
Something
Till
Years
Nine
Life
Gives
Pleasure
Five
Working
Retire
Giving
Retiring
Every
Thirty

More quotes by Paulo Coelho

Image
I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?
Paulo Coelho
Image
Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.
Paulo Coelho
Image
It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.
Paulo Coelho
Image
We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination
Paulo Coelho
Image
He believes that To persevere is favorable.
Paulo Coelho
Image
It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend it whets your appetite with a taste of success
Paulo Coelho
Image
She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.
Paulo Coelho
Image
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
Paulo Coelho
Image
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
Paulo Coelho
Image
We have to be prepared for change.
Paulo Coelho
Image
The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.
Paulo Coelho
Image
I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle being paralysed by fear is not.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.
Paulo Coelho
Image
The wise are wise only because they love.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.
Paulo Coelho
Image
They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.
Paulo Coelho