Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.


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PAULO COELHO
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
PAULO COELHO
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...
PAULO COELHO
Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep wha...
PAULO COELHO
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was...
PAULO COELHO
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many thin...
PAULO COELHO
When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never d...
PAULO COELHO
I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that a...
PAULO COELHO
What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
PAULO COELHO
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, "...
PAULO COELHO
The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness
PAULO COELHO
ليست الحرية غياب الالتزامات، إنما القدرة على اختيار ما...
PAULO COELHO
Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to c...
PAULO COELHO
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus t...
PAULO COELHO
The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirro...
PAULO COELHO
Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
PAULO COELHO
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his ...
PAULO COELHO
Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning
I a...
PAULO COELHO
Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.
PAULO COELHO
No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some...
PAULO COELHO
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.
PAULO COELHO
All love stories are the same.
PAULO COELHO
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the sam...
PAULO COELHO
But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not g...
PAULO COELHO
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed ...
PAULO COELHO
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
PAULO COELHO
Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of...
PAULO COELHO
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and send...
PAULO COELHO
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.
PAULO COELHO
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and w...
PAULO COELHO
If I must fall, may it be from a high place.
PAULO COELHO
Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under th...
PAULO COELHO
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciati...
PAULO COELHO