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We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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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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life is the moment we're living right now.
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Love means sharing the world with someone else.
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To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.
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They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.
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He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.
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And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living.
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I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.
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Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion.
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We are neither worse nor better than those who eye us critically.
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Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.
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Follow your dreams, transform your life.
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The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.
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A Warrior does not go into battle without knowing the limitations of his ally.
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Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.
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Love appears and says: You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little,but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.
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Forget about shortcuts. Instead, enjoy the wonders of your path.
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Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.
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making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
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Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
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