Paulo Coelho Quotes
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To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
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Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
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The wise are wise only because they love.
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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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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
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Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
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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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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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I never say I am a guru.
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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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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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If someone is giving us something, that’s because we’re incapable of getting it for ourselves.
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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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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
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It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
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The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
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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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I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
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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.