Paulo Coelho Quotes
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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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Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
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A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety.
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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.
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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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I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
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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.
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In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.
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So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.
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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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If you come here, you will find a hidden treasure.
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What hurts us is what heals us.
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I don't try to control my days.
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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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On 11 November 1997, Veronika decided that the moment to kill herself had - at last! - arrived.
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I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.
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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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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
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I think to myself that this really isn’t something I should concern myself with.
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We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
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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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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
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I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.
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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.