Paulo Coelho Quotes - Page 59

• The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.

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  Religious, War, Looks

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.1, HarperCollins UK

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• I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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  Book, Writing, Creating

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• I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

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  Writing, Thinking, Expression

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• We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.

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  Love Is, Giving, Suffering

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there

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  Fields

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• Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

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  Love, Passion, Thinking

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• So the Warrior fights the Good Fight and he helps others, even though he does not quite understand why.

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  Life, Inspiration, Fighting

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• I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

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  Book, Writing, Years

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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  Book, Writing, Heart

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• Love is the glue that keeps the stars in place.

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  Stars, Love Is, Glue

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• That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

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  Love Is, Two, Different

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• A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

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  Life, Warrior, Garden

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• No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

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  Life, Warrior, Thinking

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• When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer.

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  Life, Prayer, Inspiration

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• The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions.

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  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom

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  Spiritual, Teaching, Men

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• May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

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  Sacrifice, Joy, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 30, 2012

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• Charisma- the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves.

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  Men, People, Naked

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• If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving dance, fire, water, air, earth, songs, music, flowers, and beauty.

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  Mother, Song, Flower

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• During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

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  Heart, Joy, Brain

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• If u behave differently, u will be expelled from the tribe because u can infect others and destroy something that was extremely difficult to organize in the first place.

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  Life, Inspiration, Firsts

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• Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

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  Life, Believe, Intelligent

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• Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities.

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  Responsibility, Warrior, Light

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• I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk so openly about sex, we see movies and we read books; but when we are face to face with someone else, we forget our individual patterns; that we are unique. So we try to repeat other people's patterns, according to what we seen and what we heard. So most of us are very frustrated, because we don't accept our individuality as far as sex is concerned.

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  Sex, Fear, Book

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• He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

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  Life, Inspiration, Common Sense

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