Top 100 Paulo Coelho's Quotes
#1. And so the moral of his fabled travels read like Santiago's, the boy in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: Randy had traveled around the world in search of treasure and came home to find it in his own backyard. He
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#2. The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.
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#3. Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.
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#4. The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.
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#5. Those who look on other people's misery with indifference are the most
miserable of all.
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#6. To say "we're happy" might not be entirely true. Everyone is happy apart from me, as I travel to work wondering what's wrong.
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#7. He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing
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#8. That's the way it is. People can't cope with happiness.
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#9. At some point of our life, we will lose control of everything surrounds us and we will be controlled by the fate. That is the world's biggest lie.
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#10. And she already has her treasure: it's you.
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#11. It's enough to just love him, to be with him in my thoughts and to colour this lovely city with his steps, his words, his love.
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#12. Try the impossible. Don't start low down because that's where you are now. Climb those rungs quickly before they take the ladder away. If you're afraid, say a prayer, but carry on.
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#13. We deny our destiny because it's leading us toward happiness, and all we want is security.
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#14. It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is.
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#15. It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny
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#16. Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.
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#17. that's why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream.
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#18. Yes, she's playing silent music for invisible beings. Perhaps they need it.
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#19. The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.
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#20. Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.
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#21. When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises,
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#22. Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
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#23. On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others, he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the Warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path.
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#24. I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let's dance.
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#25. About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
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#26. So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.
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#27. Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.
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#28. Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.
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#29. That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.
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#30. And when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. I
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#31. Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.
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#32. That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.
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#33. There's always a way of allowing happiness in, but for that to happen, both partners have to acknowledge there are problems.
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#34. Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
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#35. People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.
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#36. The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to ... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
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#37. One person's courage will help the other person to be equally brave.
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#38. I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.
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#39. It's just a storm in a tea cup,' someone says
The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.
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#40. Because a man's greatest fear is not being a man, something that never occurs to a woman (not being a woman, that is).
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#41. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
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#42. I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.
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#43. Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.
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#44. Eat when it's time to eat. And move along when it's time to move along.
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#45. I, too, get scared, but it's at such moments that I discover a wisdom that is beyond me, and I go forward.
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#46. It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.
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#47. The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats.
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#48. There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.
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#49. What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don't all have the courage to confront our own dream.
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#50. Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and
decided to say nothing.
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#51. It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
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#52. May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you.
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#53. Always remember the proverb: "This too shall pass." Your negative feelings won't last forever, there's a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you'll feel better eventually.
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#55. Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.
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#56. One never knows what life may have in store
for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.
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#57. Time and the things that are imprisoned in time's memory
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#58. Tell your story: Yes, tell your story. Show your example. Tell everyone it's possible, and others shall feel the courage, to climb their own mountains.
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#59. Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.
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#60. 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 if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.
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#61. Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.
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#63. Before you say again that you're going to die, I want to tell you something. There are people who spend their entire lives searching for a moment like the one you had last night, but they never achieve it. That's why, if you were to die now, you would die with your heart full of love.
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#64. Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off with them.
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#65. The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.
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#66. Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
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#67. If it's still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk
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#68. Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.
Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.
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#69. You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.
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#70. the world has stopped. Not just my world, but the world of everyone around me. When we meet with friends, we always talk about the same things and the same people. The conversations seem new, but it's all just a waste of time and energy. We're trying to prove that life is still interesting.
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#71. He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it's silence held the answers to his questions.
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#72. Naturally, I seek consolation in other people's suffering.
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#73. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
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#74. One fine day I'll reach the conclusion that that's what life is like: There's no point worrying bout it; nothing will change. And I'll accept it.
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#75. To realise one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.
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#76. Continue in the way of the bow, for it is a whole life's journey, but remember that a good, accurate shot is very different from one made with peace in your soul.
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#77. One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.
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#78. Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.
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#79. And, as the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world. Everything depended on one word: "Maktub.
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#80. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation.
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#81. If theater is ritual, then dance is too ... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.
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#82. I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.
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#83. 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. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's.
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#84. The more clearly we can see the walls of our life, the better. Even if it's only a psychological boundary, even if, deep down, we know that death will still enter without asking, it's comforting to pretend that we have everything under control.
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#85. Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
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#86. That man sitting on the steps made me understand that I was important to the world and to the history of my country. I felt necessary, and that's the best feeling a human being can have.
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#87. Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.
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#88. As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.
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#89. When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been, it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.
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#90. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
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#91. That's because like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
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#92. I've been in love before. It's like narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can control things. You think about the person for two minutes and forget them for three hours.
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#93. I'm just like that woman really. Or rather, that's what I
used to be like: someone pretending to know everything,
hidden away in my own silence
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#94. Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.
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#95. We're surrounded by Universal Desire. It's not happiness; it's desire. And desires are never satisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires
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#96. Now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he's much sharper. So you, too must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because the will make you a better person.
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#97. World. When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.
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#98. If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, and that's his love for his family.
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#99. Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have confidence in yourself. Everything - absolutely everything - starts with you.
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#100. All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I remember. What I remember is that love returned in the form of another man, new hopes, and new dreams.
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