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The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. -- The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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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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Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.
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I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything.
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
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The universe is going to help the Warrior.
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I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
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Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them
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Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent.
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Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.
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Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.
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Yesterday's pain is the Warrior of the Light's strength.
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We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination
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Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.
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One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.
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We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.
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All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.
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Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.
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To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.
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The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels.
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There is always a right moment to stop something.
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