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Aleph

Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny. In his most personal novel to date, internationally bestselling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist,

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Paulo Coelho (95)

“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Searching, Soul Searching

“Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Time, Do It, Life

“Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Action, procrastination, Starting, Killing time

“Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Love

“First develop a strategy that utilizes everything around you. The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“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. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Univer…”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“If I had to give you one piece of advice, it would be this: don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India, they use the word ‘karma,’ for lack of any better term.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“You think that you exist because you’re unhappy. Other people exist merely as a function of their problems and spend all their time talking compulsively about their children, their wives and husbands, school, work, friends. They never stop to think: I’m here. I am the result of everything that happe…”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Life is a dream from which we wake only when we meet death.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“What hurts us is what heals us.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station. And what you’re doing now isn’t traveling, it’s just changing countries, which is completely different”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“If you rely only on experience, you’ll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they’re talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com