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Childhood Quotes by Paulo Coelho

10 Childhood quotes by Paulo Coelho

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When you think of Paulo Coelho’s gentle storytelling, his musings on those first years feel especially resonant. This handful of ten quotes captures his poetic take on growing up, giving you a quick, intimate look at how he frames the wonder and lessons of youth.

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I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say…

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Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in…

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Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up…

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I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world…

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If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm of childhood it…

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“We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments.…

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“This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we…

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We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as…

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“These young women are of great interest for medicine and moralists—small defenseless creatures who, because of feuding heirs, are sent here at…

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Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves…

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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…

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Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

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

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You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them…

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

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

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

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

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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 fall into…

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

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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,…

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

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

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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…

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

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