Eleven Minutes

Earlier this month, I've borrowed Paulo Coelho's book entitled "Eleven Minutes." This book is NOT recommended for immature readers which make it recommended for mature readers. DUH. Anyway. If you want to know the story, you can go read it. If you are too lazy to read it, you can just Google it. You'll know the story either way. But the best part of reading the story itself is you get to read those quotable quotes.

The quotes hit me like a wrecking ball that I jutted down quotes. Here's some of them:

1. At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairytale and the other in the abyss.

2. In the end, the most interesting people leave.

3. When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side.

4. How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish quickly?

5. Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

6. Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just a part of life.

7. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

8. Sometimes, you get no second chance and that it's best to accept the gifts the world offers you.

9. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them.

10. 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.

11. Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life.

12. All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exist when love is present.

13. In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

14. No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.

15. Being young means inevitably making mistakes.

16.Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it.

17. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

18. Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

19. It was normal to feel jealous, although life had taught her that it was pointless thinking you could own another person-- anyone who believes that is just deceiving themselves.

20. The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

21. The world enjoys suffering and pain. There's sadism in the way we look at these things, and masochism in our conclusion that we don't need to know all this in order to be happy, and yet we watch other people's tragedies and sometimes suffer along with them.

22. When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

23. Original sin was not the apple that Eve ate, it was her belief that Adam needed to share precisely the thing she had tasted.