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Paulo Coelho Quotes - Page 66

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The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

Dream, Desert, Return

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

The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels.

Children, Angel, Parent

"The Valkyries". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1992.

Everything is worship if your mind is focused on the present moment.

Mind, Worship, Moments

... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own.

Powerful, Technology, Waiting

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Country, Men, Blessing

"Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2013.

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

Issues, Sexuality, Minutes

Interview with Dhrub Painuly, thehimalayantimes.com. April 26, 2009.

It's important though to distinguish between religion and spirituality.

Important, Spirituality

"Paulo Coelho speaks to THT". The Himalayan Times Interview, thehimalayantimes.com. April 26, 2009.

When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.

Dream, Encounters, Difficulty

When you drink water, don't forget the fountain.

Water, Forget, Drink

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.

Miracle, Blind Love, Each Day

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.

Knowing, Waiting, Suffering

FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 28, 2014

To one who knocks, the door will open.

Doors

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

New Year, Years, Birth

Never stop dreaming and follow the omens.

Dream, Never Stop Dreaming, Omen

... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more.

Thinking, Practice, Movement

People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.

Children, Imagination, People

Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.

Spiritual, Numbers, People

Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.

Moving, Sound, World

"The Witch of Portobello". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2007.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Life, Motivational, Business

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

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

Feelings, Atmosphere, Bars

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Writing, Years, Enlightenment And Love

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Ideas, Forever, Gone

"Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 01, 2012.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Want, Today, Impress

"Paulo Coelho's attack on Ulysses insults readers" by Stuart Kelly, www.theguardian.com. August 08, 2012.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Three, Three Times, Arrested

"Paulo Coelho: 'Today we are proud of being Brazilians'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2010.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

World, Easy, Modern

"'Ulysses' was harmful to literature, says Coelho". Interview with Rodrigo Levino, www1.folha.uol.com.br. August 4, 2012.

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