~ * Book Quotes * ~ - Page 9

"You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?" 
? Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem" 
 Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains." 
 Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

"When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds." 
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us." 
 Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept