1. "When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
2. "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?"
3. "Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?"
4. "Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant."
5. "At every moment of our lives we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss."
6. "The power of beauty: what must the world be like for ugly women?"
7. "Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle."
8. "What is real always finds a way of revealing itself."
9. "It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God."
10. "The strongest love is love that can demonstrate its fragility."
11. "Pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that brings only joy: love."
Coelho's "Eleven Minutes" started with: "Once upon a time, there is a prostitute named Maria."
Although it sounded really intriguing, i think it is an ingenious way of making the reader engage with it by also asking him/herself: "Once upon a time, there is a ______ named me."
:) Hope you read it sometime, too.
Like every Coelho, it is worth your while.
2. "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?"
3. "Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?"
4. "Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant."
5. "At every moment of our lives we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss."
6. "The power of beauty: what must the world be like for ugly women?"
7. "Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle."
8. "What is real always finds a way of revealing itself."
9. "It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God."
10. "The strongest love is love that can demonstrate its fragility."
11. "Pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that brings only joy: love."
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Coelho's "Eleven Minutes" started with: "Once upon a time, there is a prostitute named Maria."
Although it sounded really intriguing, i think it is an ingenious way of making the reader engage with it by also asking him/herself: "Once upon a time, there is a ______ named me."
:) Hope you read it sometime, too.
Like every Coelho, it is worth your while.
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