Paulo Coelho quotes - page 16

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,... (Paulo Coelho)
Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with. View quote
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Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it. View quote
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Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. View quote
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Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river. View quote
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But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear. View quote
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There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat. View quote
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If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want. View quote
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If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. View quote
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If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating. View quote
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Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path. (Paulo Coelho)
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories. View quote
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We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes. View quote
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You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality? View quote
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Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured. View quote
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Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives. View quote
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All love stories are the same. View quote
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Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on. View quote
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Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired. View quote
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Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain. View quote
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Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum. (Paulo Coelho)
Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days. View quote
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To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges. View quote
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she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence. View quote
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God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change. View quote
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