Paulo Coelho Quotes About Evil

• Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

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  Dream, Giving Up, People

• So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

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  Life, Evil, Path

• Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2009

• If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

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  Daughter, Fate, Light

• Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

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  Evil, Desire, Negative

• No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

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  Life, Warrior, Thinking

• Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

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  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

• She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

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  Children, Fall, Sleep

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

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  Men, Evil, Alchemist

• About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

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  Fall, Evil, Temptation

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation”, p.14, Harper Collins

• And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

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  Knowing, Evil, Tree

• You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal

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  Love, Life, Believe

• Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

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  Evil, Needs, Roles

• It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

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  Intelligent, Evil, Be Good

• Sex was always surrounded by taboos, and I don't see it necessarily as a manifestation of evil. I think that sexuality is first and foremost the way that God chooses for us to be here on earth, to enjoy this energy of love in the physical plane.

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  Love, Sex, Thinking

• An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act

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  Angel, Evil, Circumstances

• People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Imagination, People

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