Paulo Coelho Quotes
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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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I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.
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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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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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What hurts us is what heals us.
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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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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
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What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
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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.
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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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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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Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
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Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
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People aren’t used to that way of thinking. They want everything to stay the same-'
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If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.
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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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I hate to be smart.
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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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A disciple asked Hejasi:
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
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As he mused about these things, he realised that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
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In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.
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Every note leaves in each of us a memory, but it is the melody as a whole that tells a story, the story of someone wanting to get closer to another person and who keeps on trying, despite repeated rejections.
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People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.