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Years Quotes by Paulo Coelho
- It took me 40 years to write my first book.
- I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
- Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
- It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years…
- I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I…
- Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries,…
- We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate,…
- Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.
- Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.
- Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.
- And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he…
- Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers…
- In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks,…
- The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually…
- Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And…
- And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.
- It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to…
- How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next?…
- Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at…
- Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all…
- As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left…
- There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years.…
- This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know…
- They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put…
- Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive…
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- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz