The best quotes by Paulo Coelho

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There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.

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It's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.

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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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I also knew that from this moment on I was going to experience heaven and hell, joy and pain, dreams and hopelessness; that I would no longer be capable of containing the winds that blew from the hidden corners of my soul. I knew that from this moment on love would be my guide and that it had waited to lead me ever since childhood, when I had felt love for the first time. (from "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept")

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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.