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Paulo Coelho

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“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
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Recorded in: Brida (1990).
“The wise are wise only because they love.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Elders on Love: Dialogues on the Consciousness, Cultivation, and Expression of Love (1999) by Kenneth R. Lakritz and Thomas M. Knoblauch.
“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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Recorded in: The Devil and Miss Prym‎ [O Demônio e a srta Prym] (2000), p. x; this has also been misquoted as "A moment is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
“Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.”
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Recorded in: The Devil and Miss Prym‎ [O Demônio e a srta Prym] (2000), p. 86.
“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Quotes That Help You Survive (2006) by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor.
“There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Honor Your Gifts (2007) by Dona M. Deane, p. 199.
“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Publishing Tips : Weekly Strategies for the Independent Writer‎ (2008) by Linda A. Lavid, p. 57.
“A disciple asked Hejasi: - I want to know what is the most funny thing about human beings. Hejasi said: - That they always think crooked: they’re in a hurry to grow, then lament their lost childhood, and soon lose the money they need to keep their health. "They are so anxious about the future, that they neglect the present, and thus live in neither the present nor the future." "They live as if they were never going to die, and die as if they had never lived.”
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Recorded in: That which is funny about man by Paulo Coelho, Paulo Coelho's Blog (27 August 2008).
“Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality.”
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Recorded in: Paulo Coelho: 'Today we are proud of being Brazilians'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2010.
“As an author, I should be defending ‘intellectual property’, but I’m not. Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!”
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Recorded in: Paulo Coelho's blog entry "My thoughts on S.O.P.A.", 20 Januar 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
“We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.”
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“I ask myself: are defeats necessary? Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
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“If you come here, you will find a hidden treasure.”
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“I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”
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“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.”
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“There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.”
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“E quando você quer alguma coisa, todo o Universo conspira para que você realize seu desejo.”
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Recorded in: p. 22; a variant of this has become attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen" — but no occurrence of this a statement has been located prior to in The Gift o…
“At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.”
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“Life attracts life.”
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“As he mused about these things, he realised that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.”
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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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“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
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“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”
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“If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.”
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“The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything... They become the Soul of the World.”
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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
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“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
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“Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.”
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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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“There is only one way to learn … It's through action.”
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“A grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it.”
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“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”
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“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
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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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“Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.”
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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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“Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. … It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”
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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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“Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.”
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“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
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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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“Perhaps they needn't even believe — it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.”
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“We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.”
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Recorded in: As translated by Alan R. Clarke (1996).
“Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.”
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“Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.”
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“Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.”
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“Love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.”
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“There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.”
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“Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown — even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.”
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“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
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