Eleven Minutes

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

"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"

"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"

"Humans can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings"

"In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feeling and cannot blame someone else for what we feel"

"Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with”

"Always making plans for the future, and always being surprised by the present"