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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
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I am not a foreigner, because I haven't been praying to return safely home. I haven't wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner, because we are all traveling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness, and the same generosity. I am not a foreigner, because, when I asked, I received.
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Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.
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About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.
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I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
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That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.
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Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss. When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been; it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.
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When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.
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The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.
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Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. … It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
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Life is a dream from which we wake only when we meet death.
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Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.
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Signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.
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In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last.
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A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.
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At some point, we have each said through our tears, I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it. 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. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.
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Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.
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A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: Aren't you tired of waiting? Yes, answers the rose, but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station. And what you're doing now isn't traveling, it's just changing countries, which is completely different
Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else.
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I have only one certainty: there exists a parallel spiritual universe that impinges on the world in which we live. Apart from that, everything else seems absurd to me—sacred books, revelations, guides, manuals, ceremonies … and, what is worse, they appear to have no lasting effects.
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He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of surrender.
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Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.
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I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.
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Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present
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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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