Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian author of internationally bestselling inspirational stories of spiritual- and self-awakening. His best-known work, The Alchemist, has been translated into over sixty-five languages.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
There is light in darkness. You just have to find it.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart’s willingness to feel whatever is present.
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You know why it’s hard to be happy—it’s because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’