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Paulo Coelho
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“What hurts us is what heals us.”
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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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“To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.”
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“What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.”
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“Lao-tzu’s words, was: place all your feelings outside of yourself and you will be renewed.”
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“I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.”
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“I think to myself that this really isn’t something I should concern myself with.”
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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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“If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions.”
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“Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.”
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“Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely”.”
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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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“Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.”
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“Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.”
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“We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that’s of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It’s always new.”
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“People aren’t used to that way of thinking. They want everything to stay the same—and the consequence of that is pain,”.”
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“We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.”
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“It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.”
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“If you rely only on experience, you’ll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they’re talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.”
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“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”
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“Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. For example, I can’t see who is in the next carriage, but it contains people traveling in the same time as me, as you, as everyone. The fact that we can’t speak to them or know what’s going on in that other carriage is completely irrelevant. They are there. So what we call ‘life’ is a train with many carriages. Sometimes we’re in one, sometimes we’re in another, and sometimes we cross between them, when we dream or allow ourselves to be swept away by the extraordinary.”
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“Love always triumphs over what we call death. That’s why there’s no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.”
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“Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.”
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“First develop a strategy that utilizes everything around you. The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.”
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“I forgive the tears I was made to shed,”
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“I forgive the pain and the disappointments,”
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“I forgive the betrayals and the lies,”
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“I forgive the slanders and intrigues,”
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“I forgive the hatred and the persecution,”
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“I forgive the blows that hurt me,”
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“I forgive the wrecked dreams,”
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“I forgive the stillborn hopes,”
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“I forgive the hostility and jealousy,”
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“I forgive the indifference and ill will,”
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“I forgive the injustice carried out in the name of justice,”
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“I forgive the anger and the cruelty,”
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“I forgive the neglect and the contempt,”
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“I forgive the world and all its evils.”
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“I will be capable of loving, regardless of whether I am loved in return,”
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“*Of giving, even when I have nothing,”
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“Of working happily, even in the midst of difficulties,”
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“Of holding out my hand, even when utterly alone and abandoned,”
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“Of drying my tears, even while I weep,”
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“Of believing, even when no one believes in me.”
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“The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.”
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“I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.”
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“I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water. And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.”
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“I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants.”
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“I receive your love, and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures, but a love with no name and no explanation, like a river that cannot explain why it follows a particular course but simply flows onward. A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you.”
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“I am not a foreigner, because I haven’t been praying to return safely home. I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner, because we are all traveling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness, and the same generosity. I am not a foreigner, because, when I asked, I received.”
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