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and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
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What kills a relationship between two people is precisely the lack of challenge, the feeling that nothing is new anymore. We need to continue to be a surprise for each other.
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God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.
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reality
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Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.
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Freedom continues to be the thing I prize most in the world. Of course, this has led me to drink wines I did not like, to do things I should not have done and which I will not do again; it has left scars on my body and on my soul, it has meant hurting certain people, although I have since asked their forgiveness, when I realized that I could do absolutely anything except force another person to follow me in my madness, in my lust for life. ..
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We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.
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life
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What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?
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A man called Ali is in need of money and asks his boss to help him. His Boss sets him a challenge: if he can spend all night at the top of a mountain, he will receive a great reward; if he fails, he will have to work for free. When he left the shop, Ali noticed that an icy wind was blowing. He felt afraid and decided to ask his best friend, Aydi, if he thought he was mad to accept the wager. After considering the matter for a moment Aydi a..
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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the-alchemist
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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? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the ..
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We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.
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We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.
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'n tkwn s`yd lys khTyy'@. wl Drr mn 'n tksr - mn wqt lakhr - b`D lqw`d fy l'kl wlnwm wls`d@. l tw'nb nfsk dh 'nt - 'Hyn - 'D`t wqtk `l~ tfht 'w Hmqt SGyr@. nh lmsrt lSGyr@ lty tHfzn
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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.
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He might dance down the street on his way to work, gaze into the eyes of a complete stranger and speak of love at first sight, or defend an apparently absurd idea. Warriors of light allow themselves days like these. He is not afraid to weep over ancient sorrows or feel joy at new discoveries. When he feels that the moment has arrived, he drops everything and goes off on some long-dreamed-of adventure. When he realises that he can do no more..
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The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it
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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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dy'm ystTy` l'Tfl 'n y`lmw lkbr thlth@ 'shy: ls`d@ bl sbb , lnshGl bshy m , wm`rf@ kyf yTlbwn bkl qw@ m yrGbwn fyh.
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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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A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means...
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Learn to recognize omens, and follow them
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But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. 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.
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You experienced pain yesterday and you discovered that it led to pleasure.You experienced it today and found peace.That's why I'm telling you:Don't get used to it,because it's very easy to become habituated:it's a very powerful drug.It's in our daily lives,in our hidden sufferings,in the sacrifices we make,blaming love for the destruction of our dreams.Pain is frightening when it shows its real face, but it's seductive when it comes disguis..
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God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.
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A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked: 'Are you writing a story about what we've done? Is it a story about me?' His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson: I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I'm using. I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.' Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didn't seem very special. 'Bu..
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Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.
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Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents giv..
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She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.
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if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.
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reading
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How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.
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The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
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Nothing happens by chance.
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Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.
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By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.
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Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.
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The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways-and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.
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fear
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his heart was afraid. As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realised that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him - Paradise would make no sense.
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It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Slowly, I began to realize that I could not go back and force things to be as they once were: those two years, which up until then had seemed an endless inferno, were now beginning to show me their true meaning.
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About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.
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And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.
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Paulo Coelho |
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In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
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journeys
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You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.
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inspirational
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What was broken will never be the same again.
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Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so
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