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“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think.
We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades.
We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“No one can go back, but everyone ca go forward. And tomorrow, when the sun rises,all you have to say to yourself is:I am going to think this day as the first day of my life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Friendship never forgets that its only reason for existing is to love other people.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Love is only a word, until we decide to let it posses us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Do not try to make the road shorter, but travel it in such a way that every action leaves the land more fertile and the landscape more beautiful.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul, because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra: A Literary Fable of Spirituality and Ancient Wisdom

“Love appears and says: “You think you’re heading toward a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal’s existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little, but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“There is no beauty in sameness, only in difference.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Therefore, although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you. If it comes too close, say: “I’m not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.” If it tries to persuade you that taking on lots of jobs means having a productive life, say: “I need time to look at the stars in order to feel inspired and to be able to do my job well.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“In the cycle of nature, there is no such thing as victory or defeat: there is only movement.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscrito encontrado em Accra

“And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:

“Aren’t you tired of waiting?”

“Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar