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The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
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How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
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If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.
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We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to
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He also knows the importance of intuition.
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My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me.
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Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.
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Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.
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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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Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.
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The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.
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Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval
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I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end
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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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Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.
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In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.
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