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" Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. "

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" You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. "

" I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. "

" I don't try to control my days. "

" I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind. "

" People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open. "

" I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. "

" Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right. "

" The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes. "

" Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. "

" It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. "

" Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions. "

" I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe. "

" I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom. "

" I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul. "

" Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. "

" Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. "

" I'm not a person that socializes very well. "

" Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. "

" The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. "

" The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence. "

" 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. "

" The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality. "

" I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. "

" I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing. "

" The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe. "

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" I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world. "

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