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Wisdom Quotes by Paulo Coelho

67 Wisdom quotes by Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho writes that the world has a soul that can be heard by those who listen. He says true love has no answer and that wise people love while fools think they can understand it. He also reminds us that being brave enough to make mistakes is a key step toward wisdom.

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He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

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Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

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“Part of the fun in life is exactly this: running risks.”

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“Be ye therefore as wise as the serpents and as harmless as the doves.”

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“Just one day was worth more than all the kingdoms in the world.”

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“Men have never understood the words of the wise.”

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Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

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To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies

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Anything a man does can bring him closer to the Supreme Wisdom, as long as he works with Love in his heart.

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When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead.

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“God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.”

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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

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“Whoever is capable of not minding what others say, is a man on the path to wisdom”

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“But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave…

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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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The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

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The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the…

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“Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional…

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There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a…

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The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world…

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“When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason…

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“...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we…

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“The search for peace is a form of prayer that generates light and heat.Forget about yourself for awhile and understand that in…

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“Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple…

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I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow…

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“We are human beings, Lord, and we do not know our own greatness. Lord, give us the humility to ask for what…

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... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

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

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We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

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Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

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“Where will my heart lead if I've yet to wander so many unknown paths?”

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“The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop "seeking".”

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“But the greatest wisdom could be blinded by the glare of vanity.”

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Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

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“The true spiritual journey is stronger than the reasons that lead us to it.”

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A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.

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“Don’t close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.”

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The wise are wise only because they love.

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“The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.”

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simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate 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.

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.”