Paulo Coelho Quotes
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What did I do to deserve this?
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Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
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Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
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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.
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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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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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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
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Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.
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Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
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If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions.
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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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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.
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When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.
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Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
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I'm not a person that socializes very well.
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I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
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Life is a dream from which we wake only when we meet death.
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
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I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
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Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station. And what you’re doing now isn’t traveling, it’s just changing countries, which is completely different