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All Quotes by author - Paulo Coelho
" About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work. "
Media
Believe
Political
" All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. "
Love
Accept
Men
" Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. "
Man
Greatest
Beauty
" Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. "
Take
Experience
Risks
" Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. "
People
Soul
End
" Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be. "
Simplicity
Elegance
Beautiful
" Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. "
Good
Mistake
Need
" Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. "
Curse
Every
Blessing
" Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. "
You
Creative
Start
" Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings. "
You
Life
Political
" Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way. "
Communication
Universe
Every Day
" Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man. "
Beginning
Me
Earth
" Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. "
Politicians
Demons
Angels
" Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. "
Time
Never
Twice
" Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. "
Happiness
System
Survival
" However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have. "
People
Change
Desire
" I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. "
Person
Always
Rich
" I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. "
I Am
Am
Stubborn
" I am a Catholic. "
Catholic
Am
I Am
" I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will. "
Free
I Am
Will
" I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God. "
Idea
Catholic
God
" I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge. "
I Am
Things
People
" I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing. "
World
Happiness
Happy
" I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. "
Daily
Joy
Writing
" I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. "
Destiny
Control
Opportunities
" I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal. "
Explain
Reading
Personal
" I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. "
Waiting
Sunset
Tears
" I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. "
Money
Stopped
Were
" I don't go to parties in general. "
General
Go
Parties
" I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time. "
I Am
Out
Write
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