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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
“everything in life has its price.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
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
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“You must always know what it is that you want”
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
“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
“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
“To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Aleph
“The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“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
“Don't give in to your fears . . . If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
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
“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Eleven Minutes
“You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”
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
“She entered a kind of euphoric state, as if death had freed her from the fear of dying.”
Paulo Coelho
,
Veronika Decides to Die
“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
“When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
Paulo Coelho
,
The Alchemist
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