Paulo Coelho quotes - page 30

When I had all the answers, the questions changed. (Paulo Coelho)
This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates. View quote
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I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win. View quote
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I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it. View quote
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Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win. View quote
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Success is both an addiction and an enslavement... View quote
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it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be. View quote
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You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. View quote
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Only children believe they're capable of everything. View quote
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You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives. View quote
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Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision. (Paulo Coelho)
If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to. View quote
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The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better. View quote
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The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side. View quote
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People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it. View quote
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Solitude is not the absence of Love, but its complement. View quote
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If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence. View quote
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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. View quote
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When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be someone who I am I found myself. When I was humilated and yet I kept on walking, I realised I was free to choose my own Destiny. View quote
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Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them. View quote
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When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. (Paulo Coelho)
The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. View quote
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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow. View quote
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You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world. View quote
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Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door. View quote
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