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“It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Your eyes show the strength of your soul”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love...”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Eleven Minutes
“Many people don’t allow themselves to love . . . because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Eleven Minutes
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Zahir
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“everything in life has its price.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“There is only one way to learn . . . It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Aleph
“You must always know what it is that you want”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
Paulo Coelho
,
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“what is reality? . . . It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it’s the one that supports the desires of society as a whole.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Don't give in to your fears . . . If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.”
Paulo Coelho
,
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“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.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“she could never love a man like him, because he understood the Universe, and all human feelings look small when viewed from a distance.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Brida
“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
Paulo Coelho
,
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
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