Paulo Coelho Quotations
"Life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny."
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"Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there."
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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"
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"In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience"
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"A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on. "
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"The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength"
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""You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand."
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"Defeat exists, but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skillfully next time. "
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"The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself brings with it an eternity. "
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"There are three things that a child can teach an adult:"
To be happy for no reason; to be always busy doing something;"
And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants"
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"The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love."
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"History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time. History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use energy of the wind, the seas, the atom."
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"I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God."
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"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."
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"All battles in life serve to teach us something, even the battles we lose."
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"A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations. "
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"The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we able to know everything, because it's all written there."
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"That's how love got lost," he said. "When we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.""
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"You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter. "
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"When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city... without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning."
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"To realize one's personal legend is one's only true obligation."
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"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. .... Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."
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"Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in wich have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Our magic moment helps us to change and send us off in search of our dreams. "
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"No one can hit their target with their eyes closed."
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"Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem. "
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"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. 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."
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"Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives."
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"You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not."
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"It's this. That a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie. "
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"Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle. Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone. Every Warrior of the Light has trodden a path that was not his. Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. Every Warrior of the Light has said 'yes' when he wanted to say 'no.' Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved. That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is."
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"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is 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."
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"It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years."
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"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
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"If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there and then gone the following moment. God was there and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith. "
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"A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. "
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"There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness."
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"The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived."
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"Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on."
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"Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen of times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can send us to hell or paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence...we have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness."
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"They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny."
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"A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place."
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"It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones othrs throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice. "
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"Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision."
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"God is love, generosity and forgiveness; If we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyze us."
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"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so."
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"When you love, things make even more sense."
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"There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat. "
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"It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting. "
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"The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life."
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"All men and all women are connected by an energy which many people call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy can't be manipulated, it leads us gently forwards, it contains all we have to learn in this life. It we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild. We could spend the rest of our life saying that we love such a person or thing, when the truth is that we are merely suffering because, instead of accepting love's strength, we are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live"
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"Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows."
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"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."
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"Making mistakes is a way of taking action."
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"You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not."
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"When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives."
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"Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back."
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"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards, getting it."
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"Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else."
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"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."
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"I still pray but it's something automatic, and I'm not even sure I still believe in it... Because I've suffered, and God didn't listen to my prayers. because many times in my life I have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being."
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"The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain."
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"But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for."
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"No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes."
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"The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others."
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"What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon."
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"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
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"A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent."
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"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."
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"Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feed our dreams. "
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"When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing."
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"Love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't ture love. "
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"Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested."
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"Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives."
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"The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes."
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"Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else."
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"The world's greatest lie: At a certain point in our lives we lose control of what's happening to us and our lives become controlled by fate."
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"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it."
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"We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy."
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"Those who never take risks can only see other people's failures."
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"Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart."
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"There is only one way to learn. It's through action."
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"The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate it's fragility."
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"Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere."
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"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. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
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"It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them."
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"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
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"It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, it's what comes out of their mouths that is."
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"Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure."
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"No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it."
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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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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
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"You must always know what it is that you want."
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"We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery."
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"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."
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"What is the real "I"? It's what you are, not what others make of you."
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"I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we're alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange."
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"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
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"I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first time we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings..."
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"The warrior of the light listens to what his opponent has to say.He only fights if absolutely necessary."
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"The great bleesing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dream to realize."
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"Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild. "
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"Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle. "
Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone. "
Every Warrior of the Light has trodden a path that was not his. "
Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. "
Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. "
Every Warrior of the Light has said 'yes' when he wanted to say 'no.' "
Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved. "
That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is."
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"The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage."
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"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
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"The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think."
Don't fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far."
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"The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence."
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"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 ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny."
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"When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward."
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"It is always important to know when something has reached its end.Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it;What matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over."
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"Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him."
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"Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive"
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"The most important experiences we can have are those that take us to the very limit.That is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage."
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"A philosophy of life: I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure."
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"The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent. "
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"Wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure."
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"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."
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