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“Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It's risky, falling in love."

"I know that," I answered. "I've been in love before. It's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours.

"But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love."

"What a horrible way to put it," he said.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Never be ashamed,’ he said. ‘Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.’
‘How will I know which is which?’
‘By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“You are what you believe yourself to be”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

“Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

“The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“During sex, it is very difficult to deceive the other person because that is when each person shows who they really are.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Learn to recognize omens, and follow them”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“They know what the “perfumes” are going to say because they
always say the same thing, but they pretend to believe them anyway.

(a)“I could change your life.”
(b)“A lot of women would like to be in your shoes.”
(c)“You’re young now, but what will become of you in a few
years’ time? You need to think about making a longer-term
investment.”
(d)“I’m married, but my wife . . .” (This opening line can have
various endings: “. . . is ill,” “. . . has threatened to commit
suicide if I leave her,” etc.)
(e)“You’re a princess and deserve to be treated like one. I didn’t
know it until now, but I’ve been waiting for you. I don’t believe
in coincidences and I really think we ought to give this relationship a chance.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

“As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“The truth is that we don't want to be saved by in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion. It isn't like that with love - it arrives, moves in, and starts directing everything.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“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”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.”
― Paulo Coelho

“They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West