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We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.
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No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.
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No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.
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Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.
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Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.
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Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.
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Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
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When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.
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My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.
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It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.
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The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.
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Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.
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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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I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.
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I knew it,' she says. 'I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It's as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn't you?
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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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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
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Born:
August 24, 1947
(age 76)
Bio:
Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum.
Known for:
The Alchemist (1988)
Eleven Minutes (2003)
Brida (1990)
Adultery (2014)
Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
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