Paulo Coelho Quotes
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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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About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
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MySpace is an addiction.
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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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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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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike 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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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
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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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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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Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.
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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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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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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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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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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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A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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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'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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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
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you discover that your old 'I,' along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.