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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

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

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“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

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“العذاب يحدث عندما نرغب في أن يحبنا الآخر بالطريقة التي نتصورها , وليس بالطريقة التي يجب أن يتجلى الحب فيها , حراً بلا قيود , يرشدنا بقوته ويحول دون توقفنا”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“بمجرد أن يقرر الناس مواجهة مشكلة , يدركون أنهم ذوو مقدرة تفوق تصورهم”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
― Olin Miller

“It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.”
― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other.”
― Kobayashi Issa

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

“Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
― W.P. Kinsella