Eleven Minutes

“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”

Eleven Minutes

“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.”

Eleven Minutes

“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?”

The Alchemist

“God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.”

The Alchemist

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

The Alchemist

“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

The Alchemist

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”