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The Boy Told Himself That, On The Way Toward Realizing His Own Destiny, He Had Learned All He Needed To Know, And Had Experienced Everything He Might Have Dreamed Of.

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The Boy Told Himself

Paulo Coelho

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The Boy Told Himself That, On The Way Toward Realizing His Own Destiny, He Had Learned All He Needed To Know, And Had Experienced Everything He Might Have Dreamed Of.

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She Imagined Herself Both Queen And Slave, Dominatrix And Victim. In Her Imagination She Was Making Love With Men Of All Skin Colors--white, Black, Yellow--with Homosexuals And Beggars. She Was Anyone's, And Anyone Could Do Anything To Her. She Had One, Two, Three Orgasms, One After Another. She Imagined Everything She Had Never Imagined Before, And She Gave Herself To All That Was Most Base And Most Pure.

When Desire Is Still In This Pure State, The Man And The Woman Fall In Love With Life, They Live Each Moment Reverently, Consciously, Always Ready To Celebrate The Next Blessing. When People Feel Like This, They Are Not In A Hurry, They Do Not Precipitate Events With Unthinking Actions. They Know That The Inevitable Will Happen, That What Is Real Always Finds A Way Of Revealing Itself. When The Moment Comes, They Do Not Hesitate, They Do Not Miss An Opportunity, They Do Not Let Slip A Single Magic Moment, Because They Respect The Importance Of Each Second.

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In A Few More Days I'd Anticipated Telling Veronika That Our Injections Had Cured Her Heart Condition. But In Light Of Her Unscheduled Departure Form Villette My Telling That Particular Lie Will Not Be Required. The Majority Of People Who Attempt Suicide Repeat That Attempt Until They Succeed. I Took A Risk In Lying To Her About Her Condition, I Decided To Test The Only Remedy I Have Come To Have Any Faith In: Awareness Of Life. Until She Finds Out From Some Other Doctor That She Is Perfectly Healthy. She'll Consider Each Day A Miracle. Which In My View It Is.

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I Could Have.what Does This Phrase Mean? At Any Given Moment In Our Lives, There Are Certain Things That Could Have Heppened But, Didn't. The Magic Moments Go Unrecognized, And Then Suddenly, The Hand Of Destiny Changes Everything.

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

I Don't Want To Change Anything, Because I Don't Know How To Deal With Change.

I Think We Are Afraid Of Each Other When It Comes To Sex, Because We Read So Much About Sex, We Talk So Openly About Sex, We See Movies And We Read Books; But When We Are Face To Face With Someone Else, We Forget Our Individual Patterns; That We Are Unique. So We Try To Repeat Other People's Patterns, According To What We Seen And What We Heard. So Most Of Us Are Very Frustrated, Because We Don't Accept Our Individuality As Far As Sex Is Concerned.

I Need To Write About Love. I Need To Think And Think And Write About Love-otherwise, My Soul Won’t Survive.

He Also Knows The Power Of Word.

And Although She Was Sometimes Dissatisfied With Herself, She Felt Unable To Go Beyond Her Own Limitations. Books Were Safer.

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. On The Other Hand, When The Sun Appeared, The Children Would Come Out To Play In The Streets, And Everyone Was Happy That It Was Such A Lovely Day, And Then I Would Feel Terrible, As If That Display Of Exuberance In Which I Could Not Participate Was Somehow Unfair.

The Music Could Even Penetrate His Remote World, More Distant Than The Moon Itself; It Could Even Perform Miracles.

I Am A Person That Is Very Curious About What Is Going On In The World And There Are A Lot Of Subjects To Write About, You Meet A Lot Of Interesting People. But One Idea Will Be There And It Will Show Up Without Any Logic. It Is A Book That Has Been Written In My Heart Before It Is Written Into Sentences.

Joy Is Sometimes A Blessing, But It Is Often A Conquest. Our Magic Moment Help Us To Change And Sends Us Off In Search Of Our Dreams. Yes, We Are Going To Suffer, We Will Have Difficult Times, And We Will Experience Many Disappointments — But All Of This Is Transitory It Leaves No Permanent Mark. And One Day We Will Look Back With Pride And Faith At The Journey We Have Taken.

Love Is What Makes You Smile When You're Tired.

Judging Yourself To Be Full Of Virtue Paralyses. Judging Yourself To Be Full Of Guilt Also Paralyses.

Judging Yourself

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

If You Want To Understand Love, First Learn About Freedom.

There Are Some Things In Life That Are Worth Fighting For To The End.

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

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

The Good Old Days, When Each Idea Had An Owner, Are Gone Forever.

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

Believing That All Famous People Have Tons Of Money Saved Up.

Once Someone Asked Me, "what Do You Want To Be Your Epitaph?" So I Said, "paulo Coelho Died When He Was Alive.

It's Always Easy To Blame Others. You Can Spend Your Entire Life Blaming The World, But Your Successes Or Failures Are Entirely Your Own Responsibility.

My Smile Is My Way Of Saying: "you Can Destroy My Body, But Not My Soul.

If We Don't Face Our Fears, Our Fears Will Chase Us Forever.

Traditional Religions Practices Are Important.they Allow Us To Share With Others The Communal Experience Of Adoration And Prayer,but We Must Never Forget Spiritual Experience Is Above All A Practical Experience Of Love,and With Love,there Are No Rules Some May Try To Control Their Emotions And Develop Strategies For Their Behavior,others May Turn To Reading Books Of Advice From "experts" On Relationships But This Is All Folly.the Heart Decides And What It Decides Is All That Really Matters.

Our Imagination Is Larger Than The World Around Us; We Go Beyond Our Limits. This Used To Be Called 'witchcraft,' But Fortunately Things Have Changed, Otherwise We Would Both Already Have Been Burned At The Stake. When They Stopped Burning Women, Science Found An Explanation For Our Behavior, Normally Referred To As 'female Hysteria.' We Don't Get Burned Anymore, But It Does Cause Problems, Especially In The Workplace. But Don't Worry, Eventually They'll Call It 'wisdom.'

I'm Going Away," He Said. "and I Want You To Know That I'm Coming Back. I Love You Because...." "don't Say Anything," Fatima Interrupted. "one Is Loved Because One Is Loved. No Reason Is Needed For Loving.

After All, What Is Happiness? Love, They Tell Me. But Love Doesn't Bring And Never Has Brought Happiness. On The Contrary, It's A Constant State Of Anxiety, A Battlefield; It's Sleepless Nights, Asking Ourselves All The Time If We're Doing The Right Thing. Real Love Is Composed Of Ecstasy And Agony.

A Man's Dignity Isn't Measured By The People He Has Around Him When He's At The Peak Of His Success, But By His Ability Not To Forget Those Who Helped Him When His Need Was Greatest.

The Boy And His Heart Had Become Friends, And Neither Was Capable Now Of Betraying The Other.

What Counts In A Good Story Is The Person Inside. Keep It Simple.

Even If I Live Not In A Big City, Even If I Detest To Go To Parties, I Love Street Fairs And Long Conversations With People In The Countryside.

This Is For You,' He (the Alchemist) Said, Holding One Of The Parts (of Gold) Out To The Monk. 'it's For Your Generosity To The Pilgrims.' 'but This Payment Goes Well Beyond My Generosity,' The Monk Responded. 'don't Say That Again. Life Might Be Listening, And Give You Less The Next Time.

Everyone Knows How To Love,because We Are All Born With That Gift.some People Have A Natural Talent For It But The Majority Of Us Have To Re-learn,to Remember How To Love,and Everyone,without Exception,needs O Burn On The Bonfire Of Past Emotions,to Relieve Certain Joys And Griefs,certain Ups And Downs,until They Can See The Connecting Thread That Exists Behind Each New Encounter;because There Is A Connecting Thread.

The Universe Always Helps Us Fight For Our Dreams, No Matter How Foolish They May Be.

Death Is Our Constant Companion, And It Is Death That Gives Each Person's Life Its True Meaning.

Believing Absolutely Everything That Appears In Print.

When Faced By Any Loss, There’s No Point In Trying To Recover What Has Been, It’s Best To Take Advantage Of The Large Space That Opens Up Before Us And Fill It With Something New.

We, Their Hearts, Become Fearful Just Thinking Of Loved Ones Who Go Away Forever, Or Of Moments That Could Have Been Good But Weren't, Or Of Moments That Could Have Been Found But Were Forever Hidden In The Sands.

People Only Give Value To A Thing If They Have, At Some Point, Been Uncertain As To Whether Or Not They'll Get It.

You Don't Seem Mad At All,' She Said. But I Am, Although I'm Undergoing A Cure, Because My Problem Is That I Lack A Particular Chemical. However, While I Hope That The Chemical Gets Rid Of My Chronic Depression, I Want To Continue Being Mad, Living Life The Way I Dream It, And Not The Way Other People Want It To Be. Do You Know What Exists Out There, Beyond The Walls Of Villete?

He Has Learned That God Uses Solitude To Teach Us How To Live With Other People.

Everyone, When They Are Young, Knows What Their Destiny Is.

Personal Legend

All The World's Roads Lead To The Heart Of The Warrior.

Love Cannot Exist In Peace, It Will Always Come Accompanied By Agonies, Ecstasies, Intense Joys And Profound Sadnesses.

I Like To Use The Term Alchemy, Which Is The Soul Of The World, Or Those Of Jung's Collective Unconscious. You Connect With A Space Where Everything Is.

Collective Unconscious

Everything In Life Has Its Price.

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