Paulo Coelho Quotes
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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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If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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'm not a person that socializes very well.
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I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
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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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I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
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The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it’s blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn’t solve anything.
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
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I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
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I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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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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Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
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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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That’s because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn’t teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
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So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.
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At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.