We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonRead
Coincidences are the scars of fate.
Interpretation
Coincidences can be seen as signs from fate that guide our lives in unexpected ways.
This quote suggests that what we often call coincidences are not random but rather the outcomes of fate's intricate design. Each coincidence leaves a mark on our lives, serving as a reminder that there is a deeper connection between our experiences and the universe's plan for us.
In practice
In a speech about the unexpected paths life can take, one might say, 'As Carlos Ruiz Zafon once stated, coincidences are the scars of fate.'
We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
My being Muslim is only one part of my identity. But particularly in India and the world over, a concerted effort is being made to diminish all other aspects of identity and only take your religious identity as who you are.
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.
There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we donβt know where we are going.
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