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Happiness Quotes by Paulo Coelho

118 Happiness quotes by Paulo Coelho

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A sunrise rises, yet many people walk by without noticing its daily gift. The quotes suggest that happiness comes from focusing on the present and choosing how to respond to joy or grief. They also comment on how society sometimes mocks those who seek happiness over money.

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The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

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If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

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If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

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The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

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Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

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“I see no contradiction between my search and personal happiness. -BRIDA”

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Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.

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No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up

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“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer…

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If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

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Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the…

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Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the…

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Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is…

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I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that…

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There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

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We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

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One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time,…

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The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend…

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“all people who are happy have God within them. And that happiness could be found in a grain of sand from the…

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Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we…

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You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they…

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Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.…

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“Well there is only one piece of advice I can give you’ said the wisest of the wise men. ‘The secret of…

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Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does…

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What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to…

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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…

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Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have…

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No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything.…

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“If he looked back on what his life had been lately, he had perhaps managed two or three days when he had…

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One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time,…

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“One evening, for example, he was troubled because he could no longer tell whether or not his actions were pleasing to God.…

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“But before I go, I want to tell you a little story. “A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the…

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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

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The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.

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There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

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I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

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It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

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Happiness is the only goal worth pursuing

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A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

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Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

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Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.

People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my…

“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into…

“Trudi se da zivis, sjecanja su za starije ljude.”

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,…

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written…

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms…

“The simpler the pose, the better; the more sober, the more beautiful.”