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“When we don't know where life is taking us, we are never lost.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Spy

“Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Spy

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Never fall in love. Love is a poison. Once you fall in love, you lose control over your life --- your heart and mind belong to someone else. Your existence is threatened. You start to do everything to hold on to your loved one and lose all sense of danger. Love, that inexplicable and dangerous thing, sweeps everything you are form the face of the earth and, in its place, leaves only what your beloved wants you to be. - Madame Guimet”
― Paulo Coelho, The Spy

“Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective. We ceased to see the whole and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guilt, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it’s right.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Spy

“Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Spy

“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Her Photographs

“If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Being normal is boring!”
― Marilyn Monroe

“They will only care when you're gone.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I sin but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
― Thomas a Kempis

“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

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

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain