People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
PAULO COELHOIf you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
More Paulo Coelho Quotes
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How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
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I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.
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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
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There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
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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 yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!
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Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace.
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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.
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Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen.
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Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
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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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All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.
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It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.
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We pretend to be strong because we are weak.
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What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
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Don’t listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people’s failures.
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