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The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.
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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 how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.
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Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.
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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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You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
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Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.
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I can't tell someone that their dreams are impossible.
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From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive.
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I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that's hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
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No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.
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When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.
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Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.
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I learned something recently: our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives...
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The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." — The Alchemist
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The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.
The second indication that our dreams are dead is certainty.
The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.
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When you cease doubting, you have stopped moving forward.
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I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
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Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.
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You are free to choose. Make your decisions with courage, detachment, and a touch of madness.
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Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.
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Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!
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Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.
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Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.
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When you # travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of # rebirth.
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
Georges Bataille
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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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