Paulo Coelho Quotes

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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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I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

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Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

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When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom.

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Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

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Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn't live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 'I wasted my life.'

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Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

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Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find hard to accept. Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

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We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

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The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

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They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

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There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies.

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Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

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We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.

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Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.

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I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

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When you # travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of # rebirth.

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We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

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