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“Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?

The tree says to the leaf:
"That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Like the sun, life spread its light in all direction.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“The true lover is not the one who says: "You need to be by my side and I need to take care of you, because we are loyal to each other," but the one who realizes that loyalty must go hand in hand with freedom. And without fear of betrayal, he accepts and respects the other person's dream, trusting in the greater power of Love.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra