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You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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We have to be prepared for change.
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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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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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We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members to show their feelings.
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Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.
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It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.
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They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.
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Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.
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Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever
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Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.
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I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn't know that this kiss stood for my whole life - and his life, as well. The life of anyone who has waited, dreamed, and searched for their true path. The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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The Virgin (and I'm not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.
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Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.
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Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
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I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.
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By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.
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So for the question I go to the mystery of it and say I don't know. I only know that I am alive and there is something that manifests in my life, that it is God and one day I am going to understand my life, probably in the day that I die, or afterwards. But I try to find good questions and not good answers.
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We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.
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