Paulo Coelho quotes - page 37

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be. (Paulo Coelho)
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions. View quote
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Music for me, it demands full concentration. View quote
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Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way. View quote
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What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats. View quote
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. View quote
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The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe. View quote
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MySpace is an addiction. View quote
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What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself. View quote
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You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort. View quote
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I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe. (Paulo Coelho)
I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing. View quote
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We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. View quote
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. View quote
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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. View quote
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Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality." View quote
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I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you - until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life. View quote
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The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem. View quote
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When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. View quote
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Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. In India, they use the word ‘karma,' for lack of any better term. It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future. View quote
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Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility. (Paulo Coelho)
I forgive the hatred and the persecution. View quote
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I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water. And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy. View quote
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I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a certain point, it can flow around any obstacle in order to get where it wants. View quote
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close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere. View quote
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