Paulo Coelho Quotes

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We must make the most of the times when luck is on our side and do everything to help it, just as it is helping us.

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If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now.

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When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.

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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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Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.

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You are what you believe yourself to be.
Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.
Believe.

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The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything... They become the Soul of the World.

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When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think "this must be heaven". Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain — which started a fraction of a second later — was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain — unique, unmistakable.

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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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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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I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

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None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.

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The day will come when those knocking at the door will see it open; those who ask will receive; those who weep will be consoled.

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Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

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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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Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

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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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What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

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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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If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don't be intimidated by other people's opinions.

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Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could…

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Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

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Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime—for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

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There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.

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When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

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A warrior of the light never confuses tension with anxiety.

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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

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The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

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If you come here, you will find a hidden treasure.

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