Paulo Coelho Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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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Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.

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Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

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I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.

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People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

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Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

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Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

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You have to own your mistakes, otherwise your mistakes own you

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Passion. It can be used to describe the beauty of an earth-shaking meeting between two people, but it isn't just that. It's there in the excitement of the unexpected, in the desire to do something with real fervour, in the certainty that one is going to realise a dream. Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives.

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He manages to balance Rigor and Mercy.

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Never stop dreaming and follow the omens.

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Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs.

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A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

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Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity.

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Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

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We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.

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The warrior of light only risks his heart for something worthwhile.

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Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

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Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

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Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.

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