La Nomada

“This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.'
'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded.
'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Not to be constantly correcting people, and in particular not to jump on them whenever they make an error of usage or a grammatical mistake or mispronounce something, but just answer their question or add another example, or debate the issue itself (not their phrasing), or make some other contribution to the discussion—and insert the right expression, unobtrusively.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Miuccia Prada couldn’t have said it better: "What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.”
― Elizabeth Ellis, Fashion: Fabulous Female Fashion Guide: Essentials To Looking And Feeling Fabulous Every Day And In Every Season Of The Year

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist