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Famous Quotes By Paulo Coelho

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wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure." "But — Paulo Coelho

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God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him. — Paulo Coelho

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Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them. — Paulo Coelho

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No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around. — Paulo Coelho

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Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired. — Paulo Coelho

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You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks. — Paulo Coelho

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Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that. — Paulo Coelho

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All you ask from me is a little music, but I am much more that I ever thought I was, and I would like to share other things with you that I have only just begun to understand. — Paulo Coelho

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In order to avoid external attack, they had also deliberately limited internal growth. They continued going to work, watching television, having children, complaining about the traffic, but these things happened automatically, unaccompanied by any particular emotion, because, after all, everything was under control. — Paulo Coelho

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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 because that wasn't really his dream. — Paulo Coelho

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Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work. — Paulo Coelho

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Someone leaves only for someone else to come. — Paulo Coelho

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Don't be embarrassed about being loved. I'm not asking you for anything; just let me love you and play the piano again tonight, just once more, if I still have the strength to do it. In exchange I ask only one thing: If you hear anyone say that I'm dying, go straight to my ward. Let me have my wish. — Paulo Coelho

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Do not try to make the road shorter, but travel it in such a way that every action leaves the land more fertile and the landscape more beautiful. — Paulo Coelho

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This is for you," he said, holding one of the parts out to the monk. "It's for your generosity to the pilgrims." "But this payment goes well beyond my generosity," the monk responded. "Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time." The — Paulo Coelho

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

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Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings. — Paulo Coelho

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Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything. — Paulo Coelho

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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. — Paulo Coelho

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There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. — Paulo Coelho

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We are responsible for everything that happens in this world. We are warriors of light, and with the strength of our love and of our will we can change our destiny and that of many other people. — Paulo Coelho

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The moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us. And saves us. — Paulo Coelho

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No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it — Paulo Coelho

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You can say what you like, but words won't change anything. I'm not happy. — Paulo Coelho

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Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go. — Paulo Coelho

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I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn't realized that I was the one person in the world with the authority to open them. — Paulo Coelho

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Can you imagine a world in which, for example, we were not obliged to repeat the same thing every day of our lives? If, for example, we all decided to eat only when we were hungry, what would housewives and restaurants do? It — Paulo Coelho

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THE BOY RODE ALONG THROUGH THE DESERT FOR SEVERAL hours, listening avidly to what his heart had to say. It was his heart that would tell him where his treasure was hidden. "Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart," the alchemist had told him. But his heart was speaking of other things. — Paulo Coelho

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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. — Paulo Coelho

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Living room by a curtain of colored beads. The room's furnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, — Paulo Coelho

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The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles. — Paulo Coelho

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Whenever he could he sort out a new road to travel — Paulo Coelho

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Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path. — Paulo Coelho

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Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love. — Paulo Coelho

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When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the sceptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians would use). — Paulo Coelho

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God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots. — Paulo Coelho

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I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them. — Paulo Coelho

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She turned back to the piano. In the last days of her life, she had finally realized her grand dream: to play with her heart and soul, for as long as she wanted and whenever the mood took her. — Paulo Coelho

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Everything we seek so enthusiastically before we reach adulthood - love, work, faith - turns into a burden too heavy to bear. There is only one way to escape this: love. To love is to transform slavery into freedom. But right now, I can't love. I just feel hate. — Paulo Coelho

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- You said that going on the Road to Santiago is important. For it, one must give up everything for some time: family, work, projects. And I don't know whether I'll find everything the same when — Paulo Coelho

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To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task. — Paulo Coelho

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My sadness has become so routine that no one notices anymore. It's really good to finally talk about it, but what I have to say runs deeper than that false happiness. I don't sleep properly anymore. I feel I'm just being self-obsessed, trying to impress people as if I were a child. I cry alone in the shower for no reason. I've — Paulo Coelho

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Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger. — Paulo Coelho

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It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream. — Paulo Coelho

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It is your blessing, the path God has chosen for you here on Earth. Whenever a man does that which gives him enthusiasm, he is following his Legend. However, not everyone has the courage to face up to his own dreams. — Paulo Coelho

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It's not enough to know what you want to do. You have to do it to be what you want to be. — Paulo Coelho

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People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same. — Paulo Coelho

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Love is the force that brings us back together, in order to condense the experience dispersed in many lives and many parts of the world. — Paulo Coelho

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When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. — Paulo Coelho

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You've landed slap bang in hell, so you'd better make the most of it. — Paulo Coelho

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Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away. — Paulo Coelho

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We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to — Paulo Coelho

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I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is. — Paulo Coelho

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She knew she was going to die soon, why be afraid? It wouldn't help at all, it wouldn't prevent the fatal heart attack; the best plan would be to enjoy the days and hours that remained, doing things she had never done before. — Paulo Coelho

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A live spent resisting temptations is a wasted life ... . — Paulo Coelho

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My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive
I'll find love again. — Paulo Coelho

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And when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. I — Paulo Coelho

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Every road i traveled led back to you — Paulo Coelho

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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. — Paulo Coelho

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I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. — Paulo Coelho

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The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness — Paulo Coelho

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Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you've stopped listening to them. — Paulo Coelho

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When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries. — Paulo Coelho

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Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something — Paulo Coelho

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That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny. — Paulo Coelho

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Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. — Paulo Coelho

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Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see. — Paulo Coelho

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Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound to win some of the battles. When this happens, the warrior of light weeps bitter tears and rests in order to recover his energies a little. But he immediately resumes the battle for his dreams. — Paulo Coelho

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To love is to lose control. — Paulo Coelho

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I will at least have gained one very
happy day in my life. Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a
miracle. — Paulo Coelho

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The waters of a river adapt themselves to whatever route proves possible, but never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it gradually gathers the strength of the other rivers it encounters. And, after a certain point, its power is absolute — Paulo Coelho

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The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy. — Paulo Coelho

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We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities. — Paulo Coelho

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It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it. — Paulo Coelho

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Everyone believes the world's greatest lie ... " says the mysterious old man.
"What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.
The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie. — Paulo Coelho

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If I can understand what's going on
in the world, I can understand what's going on inside myself — Paulo Coelho

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They would congratulate themselves every morning on keeping their integrity, and blame themselves each night for that missed opportunity. — Paulo Coelho

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A sunset is always more beautiful when it is covered with irregularly shaped clouds, because only then can it reflect the many colors out of which dreams and poetry are made. Pity — Paulo Coelho

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I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything. — Paulo Coelho

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When I had all the answers, the questions changed. — Paulo Coelho

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If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.

Paulo Coehlo — Paulo Coelho

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During her life Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horrors in other people's lives as if they were genuinely trying to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them. She hated that kind of person, and she wasn't going to give the young man an opportunity to take advantage of her state in order to mask his own frustrations. — Paulo Coelho

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A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on — Paulo Coelho

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I am learning the Language of the World, and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me ... even the flight of the hawks, he — Paulo Coelho

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We are afraid of losing what we have. — Paulo Coelho

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But emotions were, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard. Brida let them run free for a while until they grew tired — Paulo Coelho

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We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill. — Paulo Coelho

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I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. — Paulo Coelho

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Justice. Law. Although both were vital in order to protect the innocent, they did not always work to everyone's liking. — Paulo Coelho

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Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under the protection of Mother Nature. Learn from the wise, from the sacred books, but do not forget that every mountain, river, plant or tree also has something to teach. — Paulo Coelho

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It's risky, falling in love."
"I know that," I answered. "I've been in love before. It's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours.
"But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love."
"What a horrible way to put it," he said. — Paulo Coelho

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Wouldn't it be better to see challenges as a source of knowledge, and not as our enemies? — Paulo Coelho

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Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim. — Paulo Coelho

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Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. — Paulo Coelho

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Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy... — Paulo Coelho

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Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God. — Paulo Coelho

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Not everything in life is a long train with tickets available to all. — Paulo Coelho

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you are the only person responsible for your choice — Paulo Coelho

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We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies. — Paulo Coelho

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The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. — Paulo Coelho