Paulo Coelho quotes - page 3

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly. (Paulo Coelho)
Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. View quote
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. View quote
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Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly. View quote
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When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive. View quote
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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. But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. ... Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart. View quote
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The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes. View quote
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Collective madness is called sanity .. View quote
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This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you. View quote
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Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures. View quote
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All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly. (Paulo Coelho)
Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love. View quote
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There is only one way to learn ... It's through action. View quote
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Maktub,” she said. "If I am really part of your dream, you'll come back one day. View quote
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She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane. View quote
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There is always a gap between intention and action.. View quote
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Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth. View quote
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Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past. View quote
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It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. View quote
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I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears. View quote
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Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn. (Paulo Coelho)
All my life I've learned to suffer in silence. View quote
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Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read. View quote
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LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation. View quote
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Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found. View quote
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