Paulo Coelho Quotes - Page 29

• One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

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  Past, What Matters, Doors

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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.

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  Challenges, Intuition, Environmental

  Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. March 17, 2007.

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• It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

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  Life, Moving Forward, Inspiration

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• Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

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  Pain, Eye, Loss

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• I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

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  Fear, Light, Understanding

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• We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

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  Believe, Thinking, Always Trying

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.

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  Life, Inspiration, Heart

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• We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. I've fallen in love many times... always with you. What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

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  Valentines Day, Fall, Love Is

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• I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.

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  Jesus, Bird, Stronger

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• Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.

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  Helping, Transformation, Mystery

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• When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

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  Life, Happiness, Who I Am

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• And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Selfishness, Torture

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• When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

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  Broken Heart, Hate, Conquer The World

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.

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  Dream, Soul, Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better term. But it’s a concept that’s rarely given a proper explanation. 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.

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  Karma, Past, India

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.

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  Life, Inspiration, Believe

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• The warrior is always trying to improve.

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  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end

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  Heart, Thinking, Worst Enemy

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• I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you.

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  Love You, Honestly, Mines

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 11, 2014

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• Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

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  Omen

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

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  Fashion, Confused, Mistake

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• If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.

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  Encouraging, Perseverance, Warrior

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• Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

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  Love, Enthusiasm For Life, Long

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 20, 2017

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• Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.

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  Life, Beautiful, Inspiration

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• Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

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  Destiny, Alchemist, Interfere

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