Paulo Coelho Quotes
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Don’t let yourself be destroyed by a force that was placed in our hearts in order to make everything better.
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Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
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Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.
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I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
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There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.
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We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
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At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.
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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
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The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.
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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.
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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
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Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
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Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.
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My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.
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Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.
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When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.
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My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.
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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
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No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.
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We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
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Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.
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The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.