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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
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He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.
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Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.
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All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.
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I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
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We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
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The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
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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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I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well.
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It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.
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Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.
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To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task.
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When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.
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Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.
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Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.
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Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.
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Man improves himself as he follows his path if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.
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What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
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