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Suffering Occurs When We Want Other People To Love Us In The Way We Imagine We Want To Be Loved, And Not In The Way That Love Should Manifest Itself--free And Untrammeled, Guiding Us With Its Force And Driving Us On.

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Suffering Occurs When We

Paulo Coelho

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Suffering Occurs When We Want Other People To Love Us In The Way We Imagine We Want To Be Loved, And Not In The Way That Love Should Manifest Itself--free And Untrammeled, Guiding Us With Its Force And Driving Us On.

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The Latin Word Responsibility Reveals Its True Meaning: The Capacity To Respond, To Act. - Over-anxiety Ultimately Banishes Every Trace Of Joy From Life.

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In Love You Always Win, Even If You Lose.

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When You Cease Doubting, You Have Stopped Moving Forward.

When I Had Nothing More To Lose, I Was Given Everything. When I Ceased To Be Who I Am, I Found Myself. When I Experienced Humiliation And Yet Kept On Walking, I Understood That I Was Free To Choose My Destiny.

Don't Ask Permission To Be Happy. Don't Beg For Forgiveness. Just Do It.

The Magic Moment Is The Moment When A 'yes' Or A 'no' Can Change Our Whole Existence.

And To Those Who Believe That Adventures Are I Say Try Routine: It Kills You Far More Quickly.

I Was Not I, I Was Nothing - And That Seemed To Me Quite Marvelous.

I Needed To Talk About My Real Personal History, In Order To Become Free Of It.

Personal History

When We Have Great Treasures Before Us, We Can Never See Them.

Although I Have Been Through All That I Have, I Do Not Regret The Many Hardships I Met, Because It Was They Who Brought Me To The Place I Wished To Reach.

Nothing Will Behave In The Logical Way You Have Come To Expect.

I’m Afraid Of Love, Because It Involves Things That Are Beyond Our Understanding; It Sheds Such A Brilliant Light, But The Shadow It Casts Frightens Me.

No One Should Let Themselves Get Used To Anything.

They Say That Extroverts Are Unhappier Than Introverts And Have To Compensate For This By Constantly Proving To Themselves How Happy And Contented And At Ease With Life They Are.

There Is An Afterlife. I Am Convinced Of This.

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He Celebrates Yesterday's Victory In Order To Gain More Strength For Tomorrow's Battle.

Hell Is When We Look Back During That Fraction Of A Second And Know That We Wasted An Opportunity To Dignify The Miracle Of Life. Paradise Is Being Able To Say At That Moment: “i Made Some Mistakes, But I Wasn’t A Coward. I Lived My Life And Did What I Had To Do.

God Always Offers Us A Second Chance In Life.

Everything In Your Life Can Change Except One: Your Passion

It Takes A Huge Effort To Free Yourself From Memory.

The Day Will Come When Those Knocking At The Door Will See It Open; Those Who Ask Will Receive; Those Who Weep Will Be Consoled.

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

Don't Think About What You've Left Behind.

Love Always Triumphs Over What We Call Death. That's Why There's No Need To Grieve For Our Loved Ones, Because They Continue To Be Loved And Remain By Our Side.

A Person Who Goes In Search Of God Is Wasting His Time. He Can Walk A Thousand Roads And Join Many Religions And Sects- But He'll Never Find God That Way. God Is Here, Right Now, At Our Side. In Order To Find God, You Have To Only To Look Around.

No One Can Posses An Afternoon Of Rain Beating Against The Window, Or The Serenity Of A Sleeping Child, Or The Magical Moment When The Waves Break On The Rocks. No One Can Posses The Beautiful Things Of This Earth, But We Can Know Them And Love Them. It Is Through Such Moments That God Reveals Himself To Mankind.

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