“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
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“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once”
― Girl Meets Boy
― Girl Meets Boy
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