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Thought Quotes by Paulo Coelho
- I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought…
- When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But…
- Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They…
- No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to…
- Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey…
- All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The…
- In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.
- Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
- Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity,…
- This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.
- Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.
- What made you fall in love with a prostitute?” “I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I…
- People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone…
- Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.
- When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.
- But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.
- But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold…
- Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a…
- One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them.…
- No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And…
- Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
- I knew it,’ she says. ‘I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It’s as if…
- Only children believe they're capable of everything. They're trusting and fearless; they believe in their own power and get exactly what they want. When children…
- It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not…
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