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Giving Quotes by Paulo Coelho

80 Giving quotes by Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho shares that giving is a sign of trust and that love only matters when someone gives it meaning. He separates willpower from courage, saying courage can attract fear while willpower drives action. The quotes also note that happiness is personal and that the mind often quits before the heart.

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Love gives us the strength to perform impossible tasks.

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He gives before he is asked.

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To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

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The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

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The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

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Do you know what gives a woman most pleasure within marriage? 'Sex'? ..No, making food. Watching her man eat

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you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

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When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

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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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Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

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When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

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Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in wich have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.…

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People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early,…

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We all have an unknown ability, which will probably remain unknown forever. And yet that ability can become our ally. Since it’s…

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However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the…

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I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even…

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Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to…

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

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Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make…

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The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all…

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This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your…

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People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals…

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Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name…

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Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt,…

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Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the…

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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. Only…

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Only children believe they're capable of everything. They're trusting and fearless; they believe in their own power and get exactly what they…

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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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Does he love me? “You’re asking the wrong question. What you need to know is are you in a position to give…

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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…

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Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not…

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Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country.…

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Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.

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Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

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A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

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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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The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

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

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“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.”