Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

Paulo Coelho

Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition

Paulo Coelho

I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet and are transformed into a single love that becomes rain and blesses the earth.

Paulo Coelho

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

Paulo Coelho

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal

Paulo Coelho

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Paulo Coelho

Love is the force that brings us back together, in order to condense the experience dispersed in many lives and many parts of the world.

Paulo Coelho

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

Paulo Coelho

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Paulo Coelho

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded

Paulo Coelho

but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.

Paulo Coelho

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

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He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.

Paulo Coelho

But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

Paulo Coelho

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Paulo Coelho

In true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner.

Paulo Coelho

A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.

Paulo Coelho

The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built.

Paulo Coelho

In love you always win, even if you lose.

Paulo Coelho

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

Paulo Coelho

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange

Paulo Coelho

True love is an act of total surrender.

Paulo Coelho

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

Paulo Coelho

Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.

Paulo Coelho

The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.

Paulo Coelho

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

Paulo Coelho

Love is always the same but people change.

Paulo Coelho

There are two gods. The god our teachers teach us about, and the God who teaches us. The god about whom people usually talk, and the God who talks to us. The god we learn to fear, and the God who speaks to us of mercy. The god who is somewhere up on high, and the God who is here in our daily lives. The god who demands punishment, and the God who forgives us our trespasses. The god who threatens us with the torments of Hell, and the God who shows us the true path. There are two gods. A god who casts us off because of our sins, and a God who calls to us with His love.

Paulo Coelho

If we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter.

Paulo Coelho

Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.

Paulo Coelho

...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.

Martin Scorsese

You've got to love something enough to kill it.

Marlene Dietrich

Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.