The best quotes by Paulo Coelho

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From now on, and for a few hundred years, the universe will help the warriors of light, and will obstacle those who have prejudice.
The energy of the earth has to be renewed.
Ideas need space.
The body and soul feel the need of new challenges.
The future has turned into the present, and all dreams, a part from those that imply preconceptions, will have the possibility to manifest themselves.
What is important shall persist; what is useless shall vanish.
But the warrior knows that it isn't his business to judge the dreams of the nex person, and doesn't waste time criticizing other people's decisions.
To believe in his path, he doesn't have to prove that the one chosen by the other is wrong.

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'It's odd,' says the warrior of light to himself. 'I have met so many people who, at the first opportunity, try to show their very worst qualities. They hide their inner strength behind aggression; they hide their fear of loneliness behind an air of independence. They do not believe in their own abilities, but are constantly trumpeting their virtues.'
The warrior reads these messages in many of the men and women he meets. He is never taken in by appearances and makes a point of remaining silent when people try to impress him. And he uses the occasion to correct his own faults, for other people make an excellent mirror.
A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

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The one who loves has won the world and is not afraid of losing. True love is an act of total abandon.

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Perhaps we always fall in love the very first instant we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling us otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings.

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Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?

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I am what whoever of us can be, if you listen to your heart. One who stares in wonder at the mistery which is life, who is open to miracles. Only that the other one, for fear of letting down, didn't let me act.
Yes. When I understood it, I woke up sure to be what I had always wanted to be. The other one stayed there, in my room, looking at me, but I never let him back in, even if he sometimes tried to scare me, warning me against the risks of not thinking about the future.
But from the moment I kicked him out of my life, the divine energy operated its miracles.

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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing what decision to take is the worst suffering.

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The most important meetings have already been combined by souls before the bodies are even created. Usually, they happen when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. Meetings await us, but most of the time we avoid them happening. If we're desperate, instead, if we have nothing left to lose or we're quite enthusiastic about life, then the unknown occurs and our universe changes tack. (from "11 minutes")

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The warriors of light aren't always sure of what they're doing. They vey often spent their nights wide awake, thinking their life is meaningless. This is why they're warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they constantly put questions to themselves. Because they search a reason: and they'll certainly fing it.

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The warrior of light has learnt that God uses solitude to teach cohabitation. He uses rage to show the infinite value of peace. He uses tediousness to underline the importance of adventure and abandonment.
God uses silence to give a teaching on the responsability of words.
He uses tiredness so to understand the importance of awakening. He uses illness to underline the blessing of health.
God uses fire to give a lesson on water. He uses Earth so to understand the importance of air. He uses death to show the importance of life.