Paulo Coelho Eleven Minutes Quotes & Sayings

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine. — Paulo Coelho

Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up. — Lauren Potter

God always offers forgiveness," I said, softening my tone, "to those who are truly sorry. But sorry isn't a feeling, you understand. It's an action. A determination to make things right. — Phil Klay

Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life. — Paulo Coelho

When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings. — Jon Katz

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself. — Paulo Coelho

She asks him to touch her, to feel her with his hands, because bodies always understand each other, even when souls do not. — Paulo Coelho

I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly. — Alec Guinness

In addition to my comedic sensibilities, I also have a love of science. I think that it would be nice if, by the time we're doing the next version of 'Roger Rabbit,' it would be nice if I was receiving my Nobel prize the same week. — Charles Fleischer

The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love. — Paulo Coelho

When Cynthia smiles," said young Bingo, "the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill and sing, and Joy is king of everything, when Cynthia smiles." He coughed, changing gears. "When Cynthia frowns - "
"What the devil are you talking about?"
"I'm reading you my poem. The one I wrote to Cynthia last night. I'll go on, shall I?"
"No!"
"No?"
"No. I haven't had my tea. — P.G. Wodehouse

How can you be somebody else's savior, when you can't be your own? — Caroline B. Cooney

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. — Tony Hillerman

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life. — Paulo Coelho

Why do I even care? It shouldn't hurt this much. — Marie Lu

Everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift. — Paulo Coelho

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. — Paulo Coelho

A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin. — Paulo Coelho

She thinks about the other prostitutes who work with her. She thinks about her mother and her friends. They all believe that man feels desire for only eleven minutes a day, and that they'll pay a fortune for it. That's not true; a man is also a woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning to his life. — Paulo Coelho

The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology. — Timothy Leary

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go. — Cameron Russell

Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of second. -Eleven Minutes — Paulo Coelho

The girl's arms glisten in the sunlight like porcelain. "An example," she says.
"Look at the painting," Miss Saeki says. "Just like I did."
White sands of time slip through the girl's slim fingers. Waves crash softly against the shore. They rise up, fall, and break. Rise up, fall, and break. And my consciousness is sucked into a dim, dark corridor. — Haruki Murakami

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

Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen. — Clark Gable

Stained is about a lonely bookshop keeper, and her past comes back to haunt her. I play a femme fatale, schizophrenic serial killer. They offered me the part and I was like, "I'm just curious why you thought I would be perfect for this role," and the director (Karen Lam) said, "You have this look that, when you're smiling, you're really sweet, but when you're not smiling, you look like you could kill somebody." — Tinsel Korey

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life. — Paulo Coelho

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

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. — Paulo Coelho

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

How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? — Paulo Coelho

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

I will at least have gained one very
happy day in my life. Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a
miracle. — Paulo Coelho