Paulo Coelho Quotes
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You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
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Today, writers want to impress other writers.
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What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
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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 drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
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What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
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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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It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
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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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I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
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Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
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Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.
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There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
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I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
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Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.
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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
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I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
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What did I do to deserve this?
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Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
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What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.
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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
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However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.