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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.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.
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Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.
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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
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Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness.
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You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.
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People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.
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What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.
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Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.
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Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they ask questions. Because they continue to look for a meaning. And, in the end, they will find it.
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Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.
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No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks. No one can posses the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind.
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To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies
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We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.
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If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
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And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.
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I will be capable of loving, regardless of whether I am loved in return, Of giving, when I have nothing, Of working happily, even in the midst of difficulties, Of holding out my hand, even when utterly alone and abandoned, Of drying my tears, even while I weep, Of believing, even when no one believes in me.
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A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.
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Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them
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I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.
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Sometimes it is impossible to stop the river of life.
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