Paulo Coelho’s “Eleven Minutes” Quotes (42 Quotes)

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

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.

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

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.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.

She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.

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.

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

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.

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

I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

Love one another, but let's try not to possess one another.

As you go in, on the first floor, the back window

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

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won't survive.

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.

But if I don't think about love, I will be nothing.

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

I've learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you're with me, even when you're not by my side.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

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

The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it

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

PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure..

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

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

If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and demotivating, but in time you come to realise that it's part of the process of feeling good, and the moment arrives when, if you don't feel pain, you have a sense that the exercises aren't having the desired effect.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Enamoured making love regularly, even when he doesn't making love.