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Paulo Coelho Quotes - Page 69

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Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer. From then on, the boy understood his

Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer." From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.

Dream, Heart, Boys

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

Moon, Miracle, World

Love, too, was just a question of time

Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation”, p.12, Harper Collins

She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

Wine, Men, Space

I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.

Heart, Has Beens

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

Frustration, Nothing To Lose, Constant

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.

Revenge, Heart, Men

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

Alchemist, Alchemist Love

And she already has her treasure: it’s you.

Treasure

now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.

Waiting

We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.

Heart, Adversity, Storm

Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?

Struggle, Giving, Feelings

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

Ideas, States, Millionaire

Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.20, Harper Collins

I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself look ridiculous? You don't always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking. Cry if you need to,it's good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again.

Strong, Thinking, People

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Dream, Life Is Hard, Tears

we who determine how quickly time passes.

Time Passes, Determine

Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

Winning, Victory And Defeat, Coward

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

Intelligent, Evil, Be Good

This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

Generosity, Giving, Alchemist

What we see is not always what exists.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

Stars, Orbit, Universe

Everything depends on which path you take.

Path, Depends

Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.

Important, Emotion, Vulnerable

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.

Insanity, World, Used

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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