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It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.
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If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.
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Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering.
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During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.
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The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.
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If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.
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Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.
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Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
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It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.
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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.
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If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and demotivating, but in time you come to realise that it's part of the process of feeling good, and the moment arrives when, if you don't feel pain, you have a sense that the exercises aren't having the desired effect.
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Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.
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