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Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.
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It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.
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Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.
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The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend
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Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
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Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?
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We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
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Be realistic: always wish the impossible.
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When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced humiliation and yet kept on walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.
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It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
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I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
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fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn’t experience all that they might have.. - by the river piedra i sat down and wept
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The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.
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Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.
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When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.
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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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Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.
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