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"People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves."
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."
"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
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"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."
"Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem."
"I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime."
"Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy 2 c u happy..."
"Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive."
"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
"Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous."
"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter."
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