Paulo Coelho Quotes
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I can’t tell someone that their dreams are impossible.
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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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Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
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There is only one way to learn … It's through action.
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The wise are wise only because they love.
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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 never say I am a guru.
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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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Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.
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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 don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.
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Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
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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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To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
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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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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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What can’t be cured must be endured.
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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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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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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
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It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
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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.