Paulo Coelho Quotes

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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

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All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

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If someone is giving us something, that's because we're incapable of getting it for ourselves.

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Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive. and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

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You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

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We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But know that it's still there.

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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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A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

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Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.

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Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.

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You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.

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Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.

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He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.

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Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness.

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If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

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Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.

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Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.

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There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory

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No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

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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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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

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Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

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She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts, thighs, buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world.

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A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.

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All battles in life serve to teach us something, even the battles we lose.

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But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

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Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

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In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

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My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me.
But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. … Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

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At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

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