Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

• There is always a gap between intention and action.
• Nothing in this world happens by chance.
• Suicide demands that people think of themselves first and of others later.
• Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
• No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.
• It's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be.
• I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.
• She had learned early that whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant.
• Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.
• She didn't struggle, and so she didn't grow.
• People never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.
• All of us, one way or another, are insane.
• Death had freed her from the fear of dying.
• No one should let themselves get used to anything.
• The meaninglessness of life was no one's fault but mine.
• Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem.
• I don't think you should leave this life without knowing how far you can go.
• Everyone has an unusual story to tell.
• Good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.
• God was there, and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.
• Basically everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone.
• If you live, God will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.
• You've got nothing to lose. Many people don't allow themselves to love, precisely because of that, because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past. In your case, there is only the present.
• I need to run the risk of being alive.
• Normality is merely a matter of consensus; that is, a lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.
• Diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves.
• The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.

12/28/2010--11:35 pm