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Paulo Coelho Quotes - Page 62

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Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

Personal Legend, Legends, Fulfilling

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.

Heart, Long Ago, Suffering

Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.

Heart, Next Day, Worry

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

Dies, Ifs

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

Warrior, Light, Opponents

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Doubt, Done, Existence

At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke — the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.

Eye, Heart, Dark

"The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

Alchemist, Luck, Beginners

FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2014

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.

Inspirational, Destiny, Alchemist

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

Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

Party, Blow, Perfect

Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

Fighting, Warrior, Skills

There is always a gap between intention and action.

Gaps, Action, Intention

Paulo Coelho (2011). “Veronika Decides to Die”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.

Too Late, Youth, Adolescence

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or - such is the pleasure they experience - they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

Love, Life, Two

"Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

Alchemist, Dying, Departure

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

Men

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

Believe, Men, Nonsense

Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

Destiny, Alchemist, Personal Legend

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Running, Destiny, Thinking

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

Fighting, Men, Thinking

Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. "They are called Urim and Thummim. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. Always ask an objective question.

Men, White, Black

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

Night, Men, Phones

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

Winning, Thinking, Losing

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Love, Real, Princess

FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 12, 2017

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

Thinking, Reaching Up, Sky

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