Paulo Coelho Quotes About Love
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I've met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I'm not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months' time, I'll be far away and he'll be just a memory, but I couldn't stand living without love any longer; I had reached my limit.
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I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave
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If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.
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Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
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When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.
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Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.
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In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.
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When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead.
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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.
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Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
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Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.
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The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
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True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.
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When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
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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.
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We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.
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I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
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That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.
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Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.
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Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.
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Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.
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When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
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Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.
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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
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Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion.
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Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.
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We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.
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Everything in life is about sharing; it is part of the human condition
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When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
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