Paulo Coelho Quotes
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Life attracts life.
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
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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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It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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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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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
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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'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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Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
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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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It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
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I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you - until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.
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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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I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.
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When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
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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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Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. 'Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.'
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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First develop a strategy that utilizes everything around you. The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.
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'If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise,' said the seer. 'If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.'
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I'm not a person that socializes very well.
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Veronika brought her interior monologue to a close and made a promise to herself: she would not leave Villete alive. It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die.
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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.