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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If you come here, you will find a hidden treasure.
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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'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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E quando você quer alguma coisa, todo o Universo conspira para que você realize seu desejo.
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All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.
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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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Stop being who you were and become who you are.
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I don't try to control my days.
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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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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 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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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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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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A disciple asked Hejasi:
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A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety.
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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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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
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So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.
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You feel that nothing you have learned has put down roots, that while you’re capable of entering the magical universe, you cannot remain submerged in it. You feel that all of this may be nothing but a fantasy dreamed up by people to fend off their fear of death.
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No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
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I was arrested three times and tortured once.
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When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.