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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." -- The Alchemist"
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Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
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inspirational
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The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
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Nothing in this world happens by chance.
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Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.
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Paulo Coelho |
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If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
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Paulo Coelho |
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Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.
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Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.
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Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny
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Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.
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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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love
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You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.
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world
treasure
eleven-minutes
paolo-coelho
victim
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If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world
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Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.
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scars
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Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.
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Brida's eyes filled with tears. She was proud of her Soulmate. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you. You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith. Knowing that my Soulmate would come one day, I devoted myself to learning the Tradition of the Sun. Knowing that you existed was my one reason for continuin..
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Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back - and at some point everyone looks back - she will hear her heart saying, "What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourse..
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risks
wasted
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Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.
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fiction
spirituality
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If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.
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strength
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But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.
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You are what you believe yourself to be
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There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
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you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.
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inspirational
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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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And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.
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A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.
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Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.
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I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.
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No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.
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Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present"."
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Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.
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if, in the beginning, there were so few people on the face of the earth, and now there are so many, where did all those new souls come from?" The answer is simple. In certain reincarnations, we divide into two. Our souls divide as do crystals and start, cells and plants." Our soul divides into two, and those souls are in turn transformed into two and so, within a few generations, we are scattered over a large part of the earth. We form part..
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It's loneliness. Even though I'm surrounded by loved ones who care about me and want only the best, it's possible they try to help only because they feel the same thing--loneliness--and why, in a gesture of solidarity, you'll find the phrase "I am useful, even if alone" carved in stone. Though the brain says all is well, the soul is lost, confused, doesn't know why life is being unfair to it. But we still wake up in the morning and take car..
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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 our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.
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suffering
darkness
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If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.
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Marie, let's suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black, while the other man's face is completely clean. My question is this: which of the two will wash his face? That's a silly question. The one with the dirty face of course.' No, the one with the dirty face will look at the other man and assume that he looks like him. ..
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We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.
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Paulo Coelho |
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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. It's your mission on earth.
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inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.
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Paulo Coelho |
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If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.
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Paulo Coelho |
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Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.
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Paulo Coelho |
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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.
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Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.' Like you?' On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a ma..
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