Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Paulo Coelho

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Paulo Coelho

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Paulo Coelho

Love is what dreams are made of!

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

Paulo Coelho

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

Paulo Coelho

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Paulo Coelho

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Paulo Coelho

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Paulo Coelho

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Paulo Coelho

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

Paulo Coelho

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

Paulo Coelho

The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

Paulo Coelho

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

Paulo Coelho

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Phil Ochs

Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

Phil Ochs

Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.

Phil Robertson

Fear God. Love your neighbor. And shoot ducks.

Peter Marshall

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Quentin Crisp

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Quentin Crisp

What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

Quentin Crisp

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Quentin Crisp

The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.