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Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.
— Paulo Coelho
From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.
— Paulo Coelho
Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.
— Paulo Coelho
I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way. I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.
— Paulo Coelho
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.
— Paulo Coelho
As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.
— Paulo Coelho
I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.
— Paulo Coelho
Knowledge is an illusion. Ecstasy is the true reality. Knowledge fills us with guilt. Ecstasy allows us to be one with he who is the Universe, before it existed, and after it has been destroyed.
— Paulo Coelho
we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss
— Paulo Coelho
If you understand life you need a reality check.
— Paulo Coelho
You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew.
— Paulo Coelho
Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality
— Paulo Coelho