"Maktub" (It is written.)"
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Paulo Coelho quotes (page 77 of 104)
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"In love you always win, even if you lose."
"Love is an act of faith, not an exchange"
"The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. Highly Addictive! You will see and hear things that don't exist!"
"Even stopped clocks are right twice a day."
"Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day. “Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.” “But my heart is agitated,” the boy said. “It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it’s become passionate over a woman of the dessert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights when I’m thinking about her.” “Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say."
"It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too."
"Love is the glue that keeps the stars in place."
"I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story."
"I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing."
"I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way."
"I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences."
"I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them."
"For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages."
"I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain."
"God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around."
"Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital, putting your foot in a puddle, listening to what another person has to say, allowing the energy of love to flow freely, instead of putting it in a jug and standing it in a corner."
"Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on."
"Courage is fear that prays."
"He though does not always have faith."