Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.

Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.

Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.

Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.

The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

The Warrior of the light knows that when somebody wants something, the whole Universe conspires in their favor.

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.

When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

Tough times test your valor, persistence and ability to make decisions. They force you to fight for your dreams.

Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.

Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

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