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“If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“What hurts us is what heals us”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“All good things are wild and free.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
― Sharon Olds

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Yazmasaydım deli olacaktım.”
― Sait Faik Abasıyanık

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five