Paulo Coelho Quotes, Memories Quotes, Past Quotes

But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.

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I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent." The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

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Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

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The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.

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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

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Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

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The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

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All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

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That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

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The universe conspires to help the dreamer

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Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

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Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

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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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I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

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Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

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The night is just a part of the day

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They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

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The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

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Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.

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