What I'm Reading Now: Eleven Minutes By Paulo Coelho (Part 1)

I came across this book accidentally while looking for something to read while my parents and siblings went out of town last week. Anyway, I read the first few pages and i liked it...and so i decided to "borrow" it from my sis (without her knowing) hehehe.

I haven't finished reading the book yet since i'm spending almost all my weeknights at the gym. In a panic mode for a much needed workout and by the time i get home i'm usually dead tired that i only manage to read a few pages before my system shuts down to lalaland.

Anyway, i really like this book...so i'm posting some of my fave parts of the book...hope you guys like it too!

From Maria's diary, on the day that she met the swiss man:

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?

I made my first mistake when I was eleven years old, when that boy asked me if I could lend him a pencil: since then, I've realized that sometimes you get no second chance and that it's best to accept the gifts the world offers you. Of course it's risky, but is the risk any greater than the chance of the bus that took forty-eight hours to bring me here having an accident? If I must be faithful to someone or something, then I have, first of all, to be faithful to myself. If I'm looking for true love, I first have to get the mediocre loves out of my system. The little experience of life I've had has taught me that no one owns anything, that everything is an illusion-and that applies to material as well as spiritual things. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever (as has happened often enough to me already) 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; it's best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of my life.