“You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.”

— Paulo Coelho, book Eleven Minutes

Variant: 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.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 37.

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