Paulo Coelho Quotes

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It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

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Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate, and make sure you know exactly what it is that you want. No one can hit his target with his eyes closed.

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It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.

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God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

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The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

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The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist — perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels. Disenchanted, the angels had returned to God's side, knowing that they could no longer impose their presence.

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Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

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The wise men understood that this natural world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. That's what I mean by action.

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The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far...

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If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.

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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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