Paulo Coelho Quotes
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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
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Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
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When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
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To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
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The wise are wise only because they love.
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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
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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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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
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The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
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I never say I am a guru.
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I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.
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It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
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Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.
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I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.
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There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
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This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.
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Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India, they use the word ‘karma,’ for lack of any better term.
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I am a Catholic.
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Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
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I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
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He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe cause that wasn't really his dream.