Paulo Coelho Quotes

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People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

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If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

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And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

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She wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

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It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

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He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

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She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

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It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting.

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First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us accoring to His well

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Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

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Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern than merely contains.

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The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams—each according to his own talent.

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Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

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When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

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Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.

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Leave your comfortable life and go in search of your kingdom.

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Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

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If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

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The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

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People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.

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Perhaps they needn't even believe — it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.

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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

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In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

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If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

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He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe cause that wasn't really his dream.

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What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

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Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

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Love will never separate a man from his Personal Legend.

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The only way to make the right decision is to find out which is the wrong decision, to examine that other path without fear, and only then to decide.

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We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

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