"one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance."
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Paulo Coelho quotes (page 34 of 104)
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"If we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter."
"Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries."
"Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice."
"Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it."
"If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others."
"May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul."
"People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential."
"People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves."
"When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries."
"The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions."
"A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too."
"PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure."
"Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be"
"Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us."
"I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!"
"Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able to choose between one road and another. May our YES always be a YES and our NO always be a NO. Once we have chosen our road, may we never look back nor allow our soul to be eaten away by remorse. And in order for this to be possible."
"There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired."
"A life without a cause is a life without effect."
"Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that."