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#1

“But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: break-ups, heartbreak, mercy, suffering

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#1

“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

tags: endings, goodbyes, growing-up, moving-on

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#2

“Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: angels, faithfulness, gifts-from-heaven, holy-spirit, miracles

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#2

“The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

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#3

“I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn't know that this kiss stood for my whole life - and his life, as well. The life of anyone who has waited, dreamed, and searched for their true path.

The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: following-your-dreams, happiness, kissing, love, true-love, true-path, waiting

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#3

“Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

tags: adolescence, endings, goodbyes, growing-up, relationships, understanding

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#4

“The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way.

Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: control, following-your-dreams, following-your-heart, god, god-s-mysteries

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#4

“A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#5

“In order to have a spiritual life, you need not enter a seminary, or fast, or abstain, or take a vow of chastity. All you have to do is have faith and accept God. From then on, each of us becomes a part of His path. We become vehicles for His miracles.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: faith, finding-god, god, love, spiritual-life, spirituality

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#5

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ”
― Roger Caras

tags: dogs, faith, love

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#6

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun

tags: love

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#6

“God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: faith, finding-god, god, keep-watch, mist

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#7

“Love can only be found through the act of loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: finding-love, love, loving

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#7

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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#8

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ”
― Sir Walter Scott

tags: love

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#8

“Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: courage, forgiveness, god, heaven, hope, speaking, true-love, writing

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#9

“These are people who accept the fire of the Holy Spirit,' he said, 'the fire that is left behind but that is used by so few people to light their candles.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: faith, god, holy-spirit

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#9

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: inspirational

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#10

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: forgetting, hope, love, pain, suffering, waiting

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#10

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

tags: love

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#11

“And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”
― Mary Oliver

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#11

“That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: destiny, earth, fate, heaven, worrying

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#12

“Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: love, need, virgin-mary

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#12

“He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.”
― Brian Andreas

tags: adoration, love, relationships, story-people

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#13

“I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: fear, impossible, love, risk-it

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#13

“They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday. ”
― Brian Andreas

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#14

“All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: fate, life, surprises

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#14

“Single Mind:
If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway.”
― Brian Andreas

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#15

“But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.

Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: being-a-victim, negativity

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#15

“Mr Right:
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.”
― Brian Andreas

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