Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are, because things are changing fast.
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Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho de Souza (/ˈkwɛljuː/, /kuˈɛl-/, /-joʊ/, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu kuˈeʎu]; born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. Early in 2017 he has been nominated by the Albert Einstein Foundation as one of the 100 leading visionaries of our time . His novel The Alchemist has been translated into 81 languages. According to The Washington Post, Paulo Coelho has sold an estimated 350 million books and is the all-time bestselling Portuguese-language author. 2Early life Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil and attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded, "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?" At 17, Coelho's introversion and opposition to following a traditional path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 2
Some people are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.
Open the closet and check the skeletons. Don't allow important matters to haunt you in the background— it will make you anxious or guilty or both. Pending issues should be solved today.
Only the temporary lasts.
You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you need to breathe, calm down, look around, and improvise. Creativity is the key of life.
All life's battles teach us something. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.
Make use of every blessing; a blessing cannot be saved. There is no bank where we can deposit blessings received, to use them when we see fit. If you do not use them, they will be irretrievably lost.
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.
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
Look back, solve your problems and be grateful to everybody who helped. Look ahead and be hopeful that you will have problems that can be solved.
Is it 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.
You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct; the world is always changing. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort—but the road to knowledge is full of joy.
It's better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life.
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom and loyalty.
Accept a defeat as it is: a defeat. Don’t try to transform it in 'experience.' It may be an experience IF you swallow your ego and say to yourself: 'I lost.' If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule—never lie to yourself.
Doubt is wisdom. People are dangerous when they are certain that their cause is just and their facts are right.
When we follow our dreams, we may give the impression to others that we are miserable and unhappy. But what others think is not important: what is important is the joy in our heart.
Everything happens for a reason But sometimes the reason is that you made bad decisions . . .
The journey isn't so much about becoming someone. It's about getting rid of everything that isn't really you.
The first step to get what you want is to get rid of what you don't.