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“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
― P.C. Cast, Betrayed

“I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character”
― P.C. Cast, Marked

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Thoughts Become Things... Choose The Good Ones!”
― Mike Dooley

“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“El sueño habría puesto en peligro el espíritu del éxito”
― Patrick Süskind

“Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“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

“You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“What was broken will never be the same again.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

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

“You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.”
― 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

“In life's most significant moments we are always alone.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra