Paulo Coelho Quotes
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If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
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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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I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
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Here I am, trying to persuade myself that I always give the best of myself, and nature is telling me exactly the opposite: anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.
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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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If you come here, you will find a hidden treasure.
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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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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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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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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
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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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All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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I ask myself: are defeats necessary? Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
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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 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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I don't try to control my days.
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Stop being who you were and become who you are.
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A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety.
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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
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I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
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So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.
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I was arrested three times and tortured once.
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If you rely only on experience, you’ll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they’re talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.