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Defeat Is For The Valiant. Only They Will Know The Honour Of Losing And The Joy Of Winning I Am Not Here To Tell You That Defeat Is A Part Of Life: We All Know That. Only The Defeated Know Love. Because It Is In The Realm Of Love That We Fight Our First Battles – And Generally Lose. I Am Here To Tell You That There Are People Who Have Never Been Defeated. They Are The Ones Who Never Fought. They Managed To Avoid Scars, Humiliations, Feelings Of Helplessness, As Well As Those Moments When Even Warriors Doubt The Existence Of God.’’ Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho

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Defeat Is For The Valiant. Only They Will Know The Honour Of Losing And The Joy Of Winning I Am Not Here To Tell You That Defeat Is A Part Of Life: We All Know That. Only The Defeated Know Love. Because It Is In The Realm Of Love That We Fight Our First Battles – And Generally Lose. I Am Here To Tell You That There Are People Who Have Never Been Defeated. They Are The Ones Who Never Fought. They Managed To Avoid Scars, Humiliations, Feelings Of Helplessness, As Well As Those Moments When Even Warriors Doubt The Existence Of God.’’ Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho

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What Is I? It's What You Are, Not What Others Make Of You.

Oddly Enough I Never Used To Suffer From Depression On Cold, Gray, Cloudy Days Like This. I Feel As If Nature Is In Harmony With Me, That It Reflected My Soul.

I Was Tired Of Playing The Child And Acting The Way Many Of My Friends Did - The Ones Who Are Afraid That Love Is Impossible Without Even Knowing What Love Is. If I Stayed Like That, I Would Miss Out On Everything Good That These Few Days With Him Might Offer.

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This May Sound A Little Bit Idealistic, But When I Go To My Blog, My Facebook Page, My Twitter Account, I Talk To Different People From All Over The World, And You See How It's Easy To Establish A Dialogue.

You're Mistaken, Father. You Were In Paradise, But You Didn't Recognize It. It's The Same With Most People In This World; They Seek Suffering In The Most Joyous Of Places Because They Think They Are Unworthy Of Happiness.

Before A Dream Is Realized The Soul Of The World Tests Everything That Was Learned Along The Way.

Each Human Being Has His Or Her Own Sexual Identity And Should Be Able To Exercise That Identity Without Guilt As Long As They Do Not Force That Sexual Identity On Others.

To Enjoy The Rainbow, First Enjoy The Rain.

I Want To Be Someone Capable Of Seeing The Unseen Faces, Of Seeing Those Who Do Not Seek Fame Or Glory, Who Silently Fulfil The Role Life Has Given Them. I Want To Be Able To Do This Because The Most Important Things, Those That Shape Our Existence, Are Precisely The Ones That Never Show Their Faces.

We Are Told From Childhood Onward That Everything We Want To Do Is Impossible. We Grow Up With This Idea, And As The Years Accumulate, So Too Do The Layers Of Prejudice, Fear And Guilt. There Comes A Time When Our Personal Calling Is So Deeply Buried In Our Soul As To Be Invisible. But Know That It's Still There.

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Remember, The First Road To God Is Prayer, The Second Is Joy.

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When You Say 'yes' To Others, Make Sure You Are Not Saying 'no' To Yourself.

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Every New Book Is A Challenge. I Could, Of Course, Have Stopped Many Years Ago If It Was Only For Money. But No, It Is About Building Bridges Among Cultures, Different Cultures... When You Want Someone To Understand Something That Is Not Forcefully In Your Culture, You Use Stories.

So You See, Good And Evil Have The Same Face; It All Depends On When They Cross The Path Of Each Individual Human Being.

Face Your Path With Courage, Don't Be Scared Of People's Criticism. And, Above All, Don't Let Yourself Get Paralyzed By Your Own Criticism.

When I Took The Pills, I Wanted To Kill Someone I Hated. I Didn't Know That Other Veronikas Existed Inside Me, Veronikas That I Could Love.

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Our Great Goal In Life Is To Love. The Rest Is Silence.

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What Really Matters In A Pencil Is Not Its Wooden Exterior, But The Graphite Inside. So Always Pay Attention To What Is Happening Inside You.

What Made You Fall In Love With A Prostitute?” “i Didn’t Understand It Myself At The Time. But I’ve Thought About It Since, And I Think It Was Because, Knowing That Your Body Would Never Be Mine Alone, I Had To Concentrate On Conquering Your Soul.

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But He Knows That No Man Is An Island.

Simplicity Is The Heart Of Everything. If You Look To The Desert, Apparently The Desert Is Very Simple But It's Full Of Life, It's Full Of Hidden Places And The Beauty Is That It Looks Simple But It's Complex In The Way That It Expresses The Soul Of The World Or God.

All Love Stories Are The Same.

Forgive But Do Not Forget, Or You Will Be Hurt Again. Forgiving Changes The Perspectives. Forgetting Loses The Lesson.

Certain People, In Their Eagerness To Construct A World No External Threat Can Penetrate Build Exaggeratedly High Defense Againts The Outside World, Againts New People, New Places, Different Experiences And Leave Their Own World Stripped Bare. It Is There That Bitterness Begins Irrevocable Work.

Different Experiences

Words Are Tears That Have Been Written Down. Tears Are Words That Need To Be Shed. Without Them, Joy Loses All Its Brilliance And Sadness Has No End.

God Created The Visible World So That, Through Its Visible Objects, Men Could Understand His Spiritual Teachings And The Marvels Of His Wisdom

Stay Close To Those Who Are Not Afraid To Be Vulnerable, Because They Have Confidence In Themselves And Know That, At Some Point In Our Lives, We All Stumble; They Do Not Interpret This As A Sign Of Weakness, But Of Humanity. Avoid Those Who Talk A Great Deal Before Acting, Those Who Never Take A Step Without Being Quite Sure That It Will Bring Them Respect.

Don't Be Someone That Searches, Finds And Then Runs Away.

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Waiting Is Painful. Forgetting Is Painful. But Not Knowing Which To Do Is The Worse Kind Of Suffering.

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You Can't Want To Be Happy, Because That's Too Easy And Too Boring.

Knowledge Without Transformation Is Not Wisdom.

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Every Search Begins With Beginner's Luck. And Every Search Ends With The Victor's Being Severely Tested." The Boy Remembered An Old Proverb From His Country. It Said That The Darkest Hour Of The Night Came Just Before The Dawn.

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Tolerance And Compassion Are Qualities Of Fearless People.

Follow Your Dreams, Transform Your Life.

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Treasure Is Uncovered By The Force Of Flowing Water, And It Is Buried By The Same Currents.

Absolute Freedom Does Not Exist; What Does Exist Is The Freedom To Choose Anything You Like And Then Commit Yourself To That Decision.

Freedom To Choose

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She Said She Was Neither Happy Nor Unhappy, And That Was Why She Couldn't Go On. Each Person Knows The Extent Of Their Own Suffering, Or The Total Absence Of Meaning In Their Lives.

You Shouldn't Have Asked," I Said. "love Doesn't Ask Many Questions, Because If We Stop To Think We Become Fearful. It's An Inexplicable Fear; It's Difficult Even To Describe It. Maybe It's The Fear Of Being Scorned, Of Not Being Accepted, Or Of Breaking The Spell. It's Ridiculous, But That's The Way It Is. That's Why You Don't Ask-you Act. As You've Said Many Times, You Have To Take Risks.

The Great Blessing Of Life Is The Existence Of Tomorrows - And Having Dreams To Realize.

Victories And Defeats Form Part Of Everyone's Life - Everyone, That Is, Except Cowards, As You Call Them, Because They Never Lose Or Win.

Victory And Defeat

The Greatest Sin Is To Miss The Point Of Human Existence.

I Only Invoked What You Already Knew.

Freedom Is Not The Absence Of Commitments, But The Ability To Choose - And Commit Myself To - What Is Best For Me.

We Cannot All See The Dreams In The Same Way.

Life Does Not Play With Marked Cards.winning Or Losing Is Part Of It.

A Warrior Of Light Never Resorts To Trickery, But He Knows How To Distract His Opponent.

Life Is The Train And Not The Station.

It Takes A Huge Effort To Free Yourself From Memory, But When You Succeed, You Start To Realize That You're Capable Of Far More Than You Imagined.

There Are Neither Winners Nor Losers; There Are Only Stages That Must Be Gone Through. When The Human Heart Understands This, It Is Free And Able To Accept Difficult Times Without Being Deceived By Moments Of Glory

I Write From My Soul. This Is The Reason That Critics Don't Hurt Me, Because It Is Me. If It Was Not Me, If I Was Pretending To Be Someone Else, Then This Could Unbalance My World, But I Know Who I Am.

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In A World Where Everyone Struggles To Survive Whatever The Cost, How Could One Judge Those People Who Decide To Die? No One Can Judge. Each Person Knows The Extent Of Their Own Suffering Or The Total Absence Of Meaning In Their Lives.

The Warrior Of The Light Pays Attention To Small Things Because They Can Severely Hamper Him.

We Are Afraid Of Losing What We Have, Whether It's Our Life Or Our Possessions And Property. But This Fear Evaporates When We Understand That Our Life Stories And The History Of The World Were Written By The Same Hand.

He Believes That "to Persevere Is Favorable."

Nothing Lasts Forever ... Pain And Troubles Included.

There Is No Such Thing As A Strange World, Only A New World.

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Break The Glass, Please, And Free Us From All These Damned Rules, From Needing To Find An Explanation For Everything, From Doing Only What Others Approve Of.

Tell Your Heart That The Fear Of Suffering Is Worse Than The Suffering Itself. And No Heart Has Ever Suffered When It Goes In Search Of Its Dream.

The Act Of Discovering Who We Are Will Force Us To Accept That We Can Go Further Than We Think.

If You Are Never Alone You Cannot Know Yourself. And If You Do Not Know Yourself, You Will Begin To Fear The Void.

We Want To Answer This Classical Question, Who Am I? So I Think That Most Of Our Works Are For Art, Or Whatever We Do, Including Science Or Religion, Tried To Answer That Question.

The Warrior Of Light Listens To What His Opponent Has To Say. He Only Fights If Absolutely Necessary.

To Realize One's Destiny Is A Person's Only Obligation.

Outside, Beyond What Is Right And Wrong, There Exists A Vast Field. We Will Find Each Other There

You Must Find Your Treasure In Order To Make Sense Of Everything You Discovered On The Path.

Enjoy The Questions And Forget The Answers.

Words Of Wisdom

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Sometimes There's Just No Way To Hold Back The River.

Then All That Is Needed Is A Little Daring, And His Two Lives Become One.

All The World Needs Are Examples Of People Capable Of Living Out Their Dreams And Fighting For Their Ideas.

Laugh At Your Worries And Insecurities. View Your Anxieties With Humor. It Will Be Difficult At First, But You'll Gradually Get Used To It.

Using Every Means Possible To Show That, Although You're Just An Ordinary Human Being, You're Far Above Other Mortals.

Loneliness, When Accepted, Becomes A Gift That Will Lead Us To Find A Purpose In Life.

Fear Exists Until The Moment When The Unavoidable Happens, After That We Must Waste None Of Our Energy On It.

A Warrior Of Light Needs Love. Love And Affection Are Part Of His Nature. He Makes Use Of Solitude, But Is Not Used By It.

But In The End All Religions Point To The Same Light. In Between The Light And Us, Sometimes There Are Too Many Rules. The Light Is Here And There Are No Rules To Follow This Light.

It Was All A Matter Of Control. And Choice. Nothing More, Nothing Less

... 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.

Stop Being Yourself And Become Who U Always Wanted To Be

Each Human Being Was Given Two Qualities: Power And The Gift. Power Directs Us Towards Our Destiny; The Gift Obliges Us To Share With Others What Is Best In Us.

You Have Understood What All Great Painters Understand: In Order To Forget The Rules, You Must Know Them And Respect Them.

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Find Someone Who Makes You Smile, Because It Only Takes A Smile To Make A Day Better

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Ever Since Time Began, People Have Recognized Their True Love By The Light In Their Eyes.

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My Heart Is Afraid That It Will Have To Suffer, The Boy Told The Alchemist One Night As They Looked Up At The Moonless Sky. Tell Your Heart That The Fear Of Suffering S Worse Than The Suffering Itself. And That No Heart Has Ever Suffered When It Goes In Search Of Its Dreams, Because Every Second Of The Search Is A Second's Encounter With God And With Eternity.

He Knows That It Is Impossible To Live In A State Of Complete Relaxation.

When He Wins The Battle, The Warrior Celebrates.

This Is The First Teaching Of The Knights: You Will Erase Everything You Had Written In The Book Of Your Life Up Until Now: Restlessness, Uncertainty, Lies. And In The Place Of All This You Will Write The Word Courage.

I Gaze Lovingly At "hilal" A Love That Is Reflected Through Time Or What We Imagine To Be Time, As In A Mirror. She Was Never Mine And Never Will Be; That Is How It Is. We Are Both Creators And Creatures, But We Are Also Puppets In God's Hands, And There Is A Line We Cannot Cross, A Line That Was Drawn For Reasons We Cannot Know. We Can Approach And Even Dabble Our Toes In The River But We Are Forbidden To Plunge In And Let Ourselves Be Carried Along By The Current.

But Now I Knew That True Love Was Above All That And That It Would Be Better To Die Than To Fail To Love.

I Carry With Me Many Scars, But I Also Carry With Me Moments That Would Not Have Happened If I Had Not Dared To Go Beyond My Limits

Have Pity On Those Who Are Fearful Of Taking Up A Pen, Or A Paintbrush, Or An Instrument, Or A Tool Because They Are Afraid That Someone Has Already Done So Better Than They Could.

Fear Of Failure

If You Want To Be Faithful To Someone, Start By Being Faithful To Yourself.

The Soul Of The World Is Nourished By People's Happiness. And Also By Unhappiness, Envy, And Jealousy. To Realize One's Personal Legend Is A Person's Only Real Obligation. All Things Are One.

Suffering Has No Strength To Wound A Weary Body.

When Someone Wants Something Then They Should Be Aware That They Are Taking A Risk. But This Is Precisely What Makes Life Interesting.

Remember Your Dreams And Fight For Them. You Must Know What You Want From Life. There Is Just One Thing That Makes Your Dream Become Impossible, The Fear Of Failure. Never Forget Your Personal Legend. Your Silent Heart Will Guide You. Be Silent Now. It Is The Possibility Of A Dream That Makes Life Interesting. You Can Choose Between Being A Victim Of Destiny Or An Adventurer Who Is Fighting For Something Important.

Instead Of Noting Down Things I’m Unlikely To Forget, I Will Write A Poem. Even If I Have Never Written One Before And Even If I Never Do So Again, I Will At Least Know That I Once Had The Courage To Put My Feelings Into Words.

Every Warrior Of The Light Has Suffered For The Most Trivial Of Reasons.

Stay Close To Those Who Sing, Tell Stories, And Enjoy Life, And Whose Eyes Sparkle With Happiness. Because Happiness Is Contagious And Will Always Manage To Find A Solution, Whereas Logic Can Find Only An Explanation For The Mistake Made.

It's Not My Story Anymore: Whenever I Speak About The Past Now, I Feel As If I Were Talking About Something That Has Nothing To Do With Me. All That Remains In The Present Are The Voice, The Presence, And The Importance Of Fulfilling My Mission. I Don't Regret Difficulties I Experienced; I Think They Helped Me To Become The Person I Am Today, I Feel The Way A Warrior Must Feel After Years Of Training; He Doesn't Remember The Details Of Everything He Learned, But He Knows How To Strike When The Time Is Right.

But Time, As Well As Healing All Wounds, Taught Me Something Strange Too: That It's Possible To Love More Than One Person In A Lifetime. I Remarried. I'm Very Happy With My New Wife, And I Can't Imagine Living Without Her. This, However, Doesn't Mean That I Have To Renounce All My Past Experiences, As Long As I'm Careful Not To Compare My Two Lives. You Can't Measure Love The Way You Can The Length Of A Road Or The Height Of A Building.

At Some Point, We Have Each Said Through Our Tears, “i’m Suffering For A Love That’s Not Worth It.” We Suffer Because We Feel We Are Giving More Than We Receive. We Suffer Because Our Love Is Going Unrecognized. We Suffer Because We Are Unable To Impose Our Own Rules. But Ultimately There Is No Good Reason For Our Suffering, For In Every Love Lies The Seed Of Our Growth.

I Don't Try To Control My Days.

Don't Think About What You’ll Tell People Afterward. The Time Is Here And Now. Make The Most Of It.

Never Stop Dreaming And Follow The Omens.

Never Stop Dreaming

God Is The Same, Even Though He Has A Thousand Names; It Is Up To Us To Select A Name For Him.

I'd Have Stopped Writing Years Ago If It Were For The Money.

Enlightenment And Love

We Warriors Of Light Must Be Prepared To Have Patience In Difficult Times And To Know That The Universe Is Conspiring In Our Favor, Even Though We May Not Understand How.

The Boat Is Safer Anchored At The Port; But That’s Not The Aim Of Boats.

Lord, Bless Our Week. Help Us To Take All The Necessary Risks To Become The Person We Always Wanted To Be.

Treat Every Challenge As A Lesson, Every Mistake You Make As A Blessing And Move On.

I Think The Big Danger Of Madness Is Not Madness Itself, But The Habit Of Madness. What I Discovered During The Time I Spent In The Asylum Is That I Could Choose Madness And Spend My Whole Life Without Working, Doing Nothing, Pretending To Be Mad. It Was A Very Strong Temptation.

I See Is That There Are Many People Who Destroy Their Marriages Because Of One-night Stands With Someone Else. And As The French Say, "c'est Ne Pas Grave." It's Not Something Easy To Swallow, But At The Same Time, It Does Not Justify You To End A Long-lasting Relationship Because Something Happened.

Terror, Terror, Terror. Life Was A Reign O Terror In The Shadow Of The Guillotine.

Believing Everything Your Child Does Wrong Is Entirely Down To The Company He Or She Keeps.

In The Long Run What People Think About Shepherds And Bakers Becomes More Important For Them Than Their Own Destinies.

Saying ‘no’ Does Not Always Show A Lack Of Generosity And That Saying ‘yes’ Is Not Always A Virtue

Does A Soldier Go To War In Order To Kill The Enemy? No, He Goes In Order To Die For His Country. Does A Wife Want To Show Her Husband How Happy She Is? No, She Wants Him To See How She Suffers In Order To Make Him Happy Does The Husband Go To Work Thinking He Will Find Personal Fulfillment There? No, He Is Giving His Sweat And Tears For The Good Of The Family And So It Goes On: Sons Give Up Their Dreams To Please Their Parents, Parents Give Up Their Lives In Order To Please Their Children; Pain And Suffering Are Used To Justify The One Thing That Should Bring Only Love.

When I Asked You If You Wanted To, I Was Not Testing Your Courage. I Was Testing Your Wisdom.

We Women, When We're Searching For A Meaning To Our Lives Or For The Path Of Knowledge, Always Identify With One Of Four Classic Archetypes.

Love Transforms And Love Cures;but,sometimes,love Builds Deadly Traps And Can End Up Destroying A Person Who Had Resolved To Give Him Or Herself Completely.what Is This Complex Feeling Which,deep Down,is The Only Reason We Continue To Live,struggle And Improve?

The Search For Something Can Prove As Interesting As Finding It.

Love Doesn't Need To Be Discussed; It Has Its Own Voice And Speaks For Itself.

Each Morning Brings A Hidden Blessing; A Blessing Which Is Unique To That Day, And Which Cannot Be Kept Or Re-used. If We Do Not Use This Miracle Today, It Will Be Lost.

There Is Always A Right Moment To Stop Something.

Love Does Not To Be Understood. It Needs Only To Be Shown.

Real Love Changes And Grows With Time And Discovers New Ways Of Expressing Itself.

To Dream Is Not Enough, You Have To Fulfill Your Dream.

It Is Easy To Be A Hater. Go For The Difficult Task: Be A Lover!

... 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.

It Is Possible To Avoid Pain? Yes, But You'll Never Learn Anything. Is It Possible To Know Something Without Ever Having Experiencing It? Yes, But It Will Never Truly Be Part Of You.

Remember Your Dreams And Fight For Them. You Must Know What You Want From Life. There Is Just One Thing That Makes Your Dream Become Impossible: The Fear Of Failure.

Respect Those Who Grew Up And Learned Alongside You. Respect Those Who Taught You.

And She Already Has Her Treasure: It’s You.

No One Loses Anyone, Because No One Owns Anyone. That Is The True Experience Of Freedom: Having The Most Important Thing In The World Without Owning It

All Statutes To The Contrary Are Revoked.

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