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Paulo Coelho Quotes

"You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.""You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.""Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.""When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.""Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily""One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.""There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.""Tears are words that need to be written.""There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.""Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate, and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.""Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.""When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not ""Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.""Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.""Certain things in life simply have to be experienced and never explained. Love is such a thing.""Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.""You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.""If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.""People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.""The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people’s opinions."