Paulo Coelho Quotes
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MySpace is an addiction.
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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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Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
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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 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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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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Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
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What did I do to deserve this?
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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
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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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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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Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. … It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
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Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.
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Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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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.
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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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A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
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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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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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Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
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My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.