Paulo Coelho Quotes - Page 74

• Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.

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  Responsibility, Understanding, Gold

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• I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

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  Men, Listening, Important

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• We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.

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  Memories, Order, Soul

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• One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought tat was just the way life was. My life anf everybody else's.

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  Dream, Fall, Way

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• If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange

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  Strange, Life Is, Alone Life

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• We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

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  Wall, Doors, Order

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• With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

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  Heart, Matter

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

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• Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

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  Life, Men, Appreciate

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

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• You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

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  Distance, Two, Way

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

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  Love, Life, Memories

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• Only children believe they're capable of everything.

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  Children, Believe, Only Child

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• Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet.

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  Break, Accepting, Pact

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• He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith !

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  Pockets, Cents

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• If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

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  Risk, Needs, Knows

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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."

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  Book, Mind, Film

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 06, 2009.

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• Everyday was another day spent waiting. Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would recognize her true worth.

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  Night, Waiting, Everyday

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• They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

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  Believe, Ignorant, Fit

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• Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

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  Country, Boys, Night

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

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• Every road i traveled led back to you

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  Traveled

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• Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair.

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  Children, Hands, Play

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• The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

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  Real, People, Envy

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.

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  Dream, Fighting, May

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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.

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  People, Giving, Uncertain

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• Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

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  Fleeting, Surprise, Forgotten

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• I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.

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  Secret Places, Space, Feelings

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