quotes...quotes...nosebleed!

i just finished re-reading one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors: "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept" by Paulo Coelho. i have read this book n times. i so love the words by the author. most part of it talks about taking risks, which is one of the things that i still need practice with. and, of course, a lot about love. well, love and taking chances...whew! NOSEBLEED...it's the kind of book you'd want to read when you're feeling blue or whatever emo-ness you feel...haha...no, i'm not blue right now...just kinda bored when i saw the book sitting on my table and reading is really one of my simple pleasures, so i read...and i feel like sharing some of my favorite quotes from the book...so here:

"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."

"Love perseveres. It's men who change."

" We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice. The child we once were is still there."

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

"Only the happy can spread happiness."

"Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering."

"Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts."

"I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and Love flooded my soul."

"No one can avoid defeat. That is why it is better to lose a few battles in the fight for your dreams than to be defeated without even knowing why you are fighting."

"Anyone who loves needs to know both how to lose himself and how to find himself."

"Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed."

OK, i think i need to stop. i'm giving you nosebleed already...haha