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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.
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inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
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mentoring
teacher
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Paulo Coelho |
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Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
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life
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Paulo Coelho |
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After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
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happiness
love
torment
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Paulo Coelho |
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I've learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you're with me, even when you're not by my side.
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paulo-coelho
you
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Paulo Coelho |
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What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
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inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
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Paulo Coelho |
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I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.
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Paulo Coelho |
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Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
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Paulo Coelho |
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Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure."
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Paulo Coelho |
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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
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love
inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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2081f9c
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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
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inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
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Paulo Coelho |
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Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.
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Paulo Coelho |
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Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. "I'm afraid of committing myself," she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had neve..
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life
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Paulo Coelho |
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It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know ..
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Paulo Coelho |
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40fe65d
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Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
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goals
focus
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Paulo Coelho |
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behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.
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Paulo Coelho |
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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motivation
inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
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unhappiness
people
life
philosophy
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Paulo Coelho |
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Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
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Paulo Coelho |
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Love is like a 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 still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two m..
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Paulo Coelho |
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Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard ..
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Paulo Coelho |
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d7477bd
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Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.
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life
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Paulo Coelho |
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815e0df
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You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun--and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist--that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention..
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Paulo Coelho |
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He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.
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relationships
love
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Paulo Coelho |
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Maktub" (It is written.)
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inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
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Paulo Coelho |
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Maktub" (It is written.)"
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Paulo Coelho |
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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Paulo Coelho |
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Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.
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Paulo Coelho |
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Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes ..
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Paulo Coelho |
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But how will I know who my Soulmate is?" Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life. By taking risks' she said to Brida. ' By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end."
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sacrifice
soulmate
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Paulo Coelho |
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Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return."
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Paulo Coelho |
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You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
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god
life
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Paulo Coelho |
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People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you.
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Paulo Coelho |
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You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
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Paulo Coelho |
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All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
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Paulo Coelho |
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5768136
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If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.
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love
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Paulo Coelho |
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9c45c9d
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Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem
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living
dying
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Paulo Coelho |
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It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of ever..
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Paulo Coelho |
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And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
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Paulo Coelho |
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
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pain
life
renunciation
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Paulo Coelho |
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All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step
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Paulo Coelho |