Paulo Coelho quotes - page 19

The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves. (Paulo Coelho)

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

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Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

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We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

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Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

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Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.

Paulo Coelho

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them.

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What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

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Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.

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God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

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to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world. (Paulo Coelho)

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

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That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

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Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so.

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Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.

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We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

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The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.

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He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing.

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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.

Paulo Coelho

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

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None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments. (Paulo Coelho)

You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

Paulo Coelho

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!

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A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

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I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

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Paulo Coelho

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Occupation: Brazilian Lyricist
Born: August 24, 1947
Quotes count: 1006
Wikipedia: Paulo Coelho

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