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Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

Lyricist · Brazilian · b. 1947

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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
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He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.
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Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.
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All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
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What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
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Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
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Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
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Love is what dreams are made of!
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Don't say maybe if you want to say no.
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If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big.
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Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.
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Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.
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If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
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Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness.
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Instead of using your thoughts, become your thoughts
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Love is always the same but people change.
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Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed
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The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed
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Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.
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Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.
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