Eleven Minutes Quotes

• 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?

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  Life, Happiness, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 18, 2016

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• At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

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  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Eleven Minutes: A Novel”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

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  Women, Passion, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 21, 2016

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• Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

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  Happiness, Happy, Miracle

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• 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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Change

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 14, 2016

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

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  Love, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 16, 2012

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• Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

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  Love, Order, Feelings

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• No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone

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  Eleven, Loses

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 22, 2014

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• Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.

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  Love, Whole, Inspirational Love

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• 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.

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  Life, Inspiring, Views

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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

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  Moving, Heaven, Matter

  "Miss Whiplash pulls it off" by John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2003.

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• Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.

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  Second Chance, World, Sometimes

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• I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body

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  Spiritual, Soul, Body

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 10, 2016

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• Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or - such is the pleasure they experience - they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

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  Love, Life, Two

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

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  Love, Enthusiasm For Life, Long

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 20, 2017

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• Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

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  Valentines Day, Alchemist, Inspiring Love

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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

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  Feelings, Blame Someone, Responsible

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• Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have to re-learn,to remember how to love,and everyone,without exception,needs o burn on the bonfire of past emotions,to relieve certain joys and griefs,certain ups and downs,until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter;because there is a connecting thread.

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  Grief, Past, Natural Talent

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• Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

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  Love, Attitude, Passion

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• 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!

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  Falling In Love, Sides, Minutes

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.

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  Aim, Humans, Human Beings

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• Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

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  Life, Loneliness, Inspiration

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• All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

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  Love, Freedom, Lying

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• It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.

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  Men, Mind, Eleven

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

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  Losing A Loved One, Loss, Forever

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