Paulo Coelho Quotes
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I can’t tell someone that their dreams are impossible.
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Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
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You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? … I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn’t turn into … a Zahir.
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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 wise are wise only because they love.
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Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.
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If someone is giving us something, that’s because we’re incapable of getting it for ourselves.
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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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Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: 'I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.'
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
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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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Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.
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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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There is only one way to learn … It's through action.
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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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To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
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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 never say I am a guru.
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Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.
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Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
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It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
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What can’t be cured must be endured.
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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.