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The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams, it was brought from the battlefields into our very selves.
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Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.
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I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.
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When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
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In magic—and in life—there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. Time doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.
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Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen.... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished...
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The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not. They don't care if when you go, you leave behind a lover, a home, a career, or a dream. The gods don't care whether you have it all, whether it seems that your every desire can be met through hard work and persistence. The gods don't want to know about your plans and your hopes. Somewhere they're throwing the dice — and you are chosen. From then on, winning or losing is only a question of luck.
The gods throw the dice, freeing love from its cage. And love can create or destroy — depending on the direction of the wind when it is set free.
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The fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. An no heart ever suffered when it went in search of its dreams.
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The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.
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Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.
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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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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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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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