"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

"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?"
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"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."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun--and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist--that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists--a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles."
— Paulo Coelho (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)

"In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire."
— Paulo Coelho (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)

"We pretend to be strong because we are weak."
— Paulo Coelho

"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: A Novel)

"But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

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)

"You are what you believe yourself to be."
— Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)

"People never learn anything by being told, they have to findout for themselves."
— Paulo Coelho (Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption)

"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter."
— Paulo Coelho (Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption)

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho

"Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
— Haruki Murakami

"Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you."
— Rita Mae Brown

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
— Confucius

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

"Before you Bella my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. .... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliance, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no reason for anything."
— Stephenie Meyer

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
— George Carlin

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix

"Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"All you need is love."
— John Lennon

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
— Albert Einstein

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
— John Lennon

"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

"What's meant to be will always find a way"
— Trisha Yearwood

"No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed."
— Ian McEwan

"A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended."
— Ian McEwan (Atonement)

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde