Paulo Coelho Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
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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 cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
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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.
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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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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
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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
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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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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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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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Life is a dream from which we wake only when we meet death.
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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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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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I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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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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It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.