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Life Quotes by Paulo Coelho

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Love never separates a man from his personal legend. Coelho says life picks us up and we must accept both joy and grief. He also reminds us to act at the right moments, to see each day as a small miracle, and to rebuild with the strength we already have.

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Only cowards hide behind silence.

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He also chooses his enemies.

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He is never cowardly.

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He too knows how to lose.

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He though does not always have faith.

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Swearing when in heavy traffic.

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He has the qualities of a rock.

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Dreams are the language of God.

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The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

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Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

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“Life without cause is a life without effect.”

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Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

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

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Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

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It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny

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If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

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Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive.

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The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in…

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Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

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A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not…

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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

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True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

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We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in…

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So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my…

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Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want…

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The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make…

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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…

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“The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given…

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“It is said that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives…

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The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life,…

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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.”…

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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.…

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“You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to…

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“If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert,…

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“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every…

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“I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion & adventure that life can give me. The other wants…

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“But yesterday, because of a piano and a young woman who is probably dead by now, I learned something important: Life inside…

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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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“Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking…

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When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment…

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I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the…

Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

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To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.

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.”