"We are all different, and should do what we can do te remain so."
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Paulo Coelho quotes (page 94 of 104)
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"I don't go to parties in general."
"I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world."
"I was arrested three times and tortured once."
"Today, writers want to impress other writers."
"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."
"Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere."
"Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world."
"Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact."
"People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition."
"... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more."
"Never stop dreaming and follow the omens."
"To one who knocks, the door will open."
"Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering."
"I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe."
"... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own."
"Everything is worship if your mind is focused on the present moment."
"The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels."
"The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return."
"Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly."