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by
Paulo Coelho
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August 18 - October 28, 2019
“If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it.”
when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
“Don’t forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else. And don’t forget the language of omens. And, above all, don’t forget to follow your Personal Legend through to its conclusion.
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it,”
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.
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.”
“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love … the love that speaks the Language of the World.”
“There is only one way to learn,” the alchemist answered. “It’s through action.
“The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. That’s what I mean by action.”
“Naturally it’s afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you’ve won.”
“Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you’re thinking about life and about the world.”
“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.”
