Paulo Coelho Quotes
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We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.
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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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Stop being who you were and become who you are.
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Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
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The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.
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If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
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Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.
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Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.
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Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown - even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
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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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People aren’t used to that way of thinking. They want everything to stay the same-'
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A disciple asked Hejasi:
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I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
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Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or - such is the pleasure they experience - they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.
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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
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I have only one certainty: there exists a parallel spiritual universe that impinges on the world in which we live. Apart from that, everything else seems absurd to me-sacred books, revelations, guides, manuals, ceremonies … and, what is worse, they appear to have no lasting effects.
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Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.
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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.
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If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.
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Of giving, even when I have nothing,
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I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
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You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
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What hurts us is what heals us.