Paulo Coelho quote: "But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for."

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something...
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A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a ...
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She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a stro...
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This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter accou...
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Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I...
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The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
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They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in ...
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There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs becom...
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It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
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And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people...
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When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we...
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Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
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When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistake...
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Ester asked why people are sad.
"That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of...
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Tears are words that need to be written.
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Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should...
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People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
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(On the myth of Eros)
Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see th...
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
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If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the ...
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Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
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I've been in love before, it's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrende...
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None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. ...
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Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are ple...
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Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
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It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, ...
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My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more...
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Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has...
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Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual ene...
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Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it...
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One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wante...
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Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And ...
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of sufferin...
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In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...
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All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion ...
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The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the co...
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When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at ...
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Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it ...
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So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exac...
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I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even m...
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Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed ...
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciati...
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can unders...
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brin...
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Why is patience so important?"
"Because it makes us pay attention.
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Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
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No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
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Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily
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You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpect...
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Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers s...
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The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
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Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude i...
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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize hi...
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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely h...
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The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Fa...
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You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. T...
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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
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Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, idea...
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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brin...
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be...
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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
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No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
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I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or le...
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of sufferin...
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Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for ...
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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one th...
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I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very q...
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
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When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever...
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It'...
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In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who ca...
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In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.
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it’s that sense of powerlessness that destroyed my soul. i cannot be as good as i would like to be...
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Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer ...
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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some t...
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you ...
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So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each ind...
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It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
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If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clea...
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When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are no...
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When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to u...
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I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
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When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And y...
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I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writi...
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The boy continued to listen to his heart as they crossed the desert. He came to understand its dodge...
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it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
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Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.
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The world speaks many languages, the boy thought
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It was the pure Language of the World.It required no explanation,just as the universe needs none as ...
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Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride acros...
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Maktub" (It is written.)
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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards gett...
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It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none a...
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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
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When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
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Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked.
"Because, wherever your heart is, that ...
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When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that ...
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I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can conc...
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People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
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This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, ...
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I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a...
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she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the...
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She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then f...
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A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many r...
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At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth...
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Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to pai...
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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to ...
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I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is t...
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My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that'...
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The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens.
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - ...
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I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.
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The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my ...
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Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their...
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake:...
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When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dare...
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Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what i...
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but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was...
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If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for yo...
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Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness,...
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Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on to...
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Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the...
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She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing the...
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If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world
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We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of i...
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If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
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لا شك أن الحب قادر على تغيير كل شئ فى حياة الانسان خلال �...
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There is always a gap between intention and action..
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When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
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Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of li...
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No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence aroun...
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A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:

“Aren’...
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving
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When I'm dancing, I'm not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? ...
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She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: i...
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You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in dar...
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Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to me...
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And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't h...
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Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.
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In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of ri...
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People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
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Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
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Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.
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When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
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Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

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The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can...
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Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep wha...
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I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was...
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The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many thin...
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When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never d...
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I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that a...
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What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
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Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name ...
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The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "...
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The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness
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ليست الحرية غياب الالتزامات، إنما القدرة على اختيار ما...
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Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to c...
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No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus t...
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The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirro...
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Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
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Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his ...
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Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning
I a...
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Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.
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No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some...
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Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.
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The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
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We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
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All love stories are the same.
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And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the sam...
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But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not g...
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Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed ...
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That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
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Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of...
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Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and send...
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It's risky, falling in love."

"I know that," I answered. "I've been in love before. It's ...
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In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the price...
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But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water...
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To love is to lose control.
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Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.
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God always offers us a second chance in life.
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Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and w...
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If I must fall, may it be from a high place.
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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under th...
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciati...
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You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the...
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But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

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But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

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