Tag: Paulo Coelho
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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.
Paulo Coelho
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You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
Paulo Coelho
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About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
Paulo Coelho
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo Coelho
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Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.
Paulo Coelho
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I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
Paulo Coelho
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I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.
Paulo Coelho
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Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.
Paulo Coelho
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I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
Paulo Coelho
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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Paulo Coelho