Paulo Coelho Quotes
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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One day, you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. DO IT NOW.
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It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.
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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.
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When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.
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In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
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You should treat a muse like a fairy.
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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
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Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
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Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.
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I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.
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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.
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Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely'.
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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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The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
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We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
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There is only one way to learn … It's through action.
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We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.
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Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.