Paulo Coelho Quotes, Children Quotes, War Quotes

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.

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We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

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As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

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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 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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From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

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I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

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Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.

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Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.

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A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

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Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

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If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

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But that moment exists - a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

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We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

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Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.

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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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Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

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Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.

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Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to give it. Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.

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Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

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