Paulo Coelho quotes - page 36

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. (Paulo Coelho)
I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom. View quote
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My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level. View quote
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Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. View quote
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The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence. View quote
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. View quote
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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. View quote
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Today, writers want to impress other writers. View quote
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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. View quote
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I never say I am a guru. View quote
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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity. (Paulo Coelho)
It's very difficult to read a book on your computer. View quote
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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. View quote
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When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple. View quote
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. View quote
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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. View quote
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No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me. View quote
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The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality. View quote
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Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. View quote
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The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes. View quote
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. (Paulo Coelho)
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk. View quote
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We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. View quote
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You should treat a muse like a fairy. View quote
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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. View quote
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