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“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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#2

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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#3

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

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#4

“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: love

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#5

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: inspirational, motivation

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#6

“We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

tags: dreams, nourishment, soul

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#7

“Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

tags: companion, death, life, meaning

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#8

“A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

tags: possibility

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#9

“The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

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#10

“The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

tags: inspirational, paulo-coelho, the-pilgrimage

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#11

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#12

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#13

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#14

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#15

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#16

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#17

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#18

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

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#19

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#20

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#21

“Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: love

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“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

tags: anxiety, happiness, love, torment

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#23

“All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

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#24

“A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: risks

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#25

“But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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#26

“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

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#27

“Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

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#28

“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

tags: time

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#29

“When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

tags: life, living, time

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#30

“There is a reason God limits man's days.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

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