I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Paulo CoelhoRead
It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Choosing goodness over evil is seen as a more intelligent and practical decision.
Paulo Coelho's quote emphasizes the importance of moral choices in life, suggesting that goodness is not just a virtue but a more sensible path to follow. It implies that being kind and compassionate leads to better outcomes than engaging in harmful behaviors, highlighting the wisdom in making ethical decisions.
Themes
GoodnessEvilIntelligencePracticalityMoral Choices
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech about ethical leadership.
More from Paulo Coelho
All quotes βEach stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.
Paulo CoelhoRead
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.
Paulo CoelhoRead
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Paulo CoelhoRead
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Similar quotes
They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.
George CarlinRead
It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.
Lauren OliverRead
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Samuel JohnsonRead
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
EpictetusRead
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
St. Catherine Of SienaRead
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Gene WilderRead