Paulo Coelho: Trending quotes (page 40)

“It isn’t in the way we wield a sword, but in the dialogue we hold that could avoid a war.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance

Way , War

“Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance

Clothes , Way

“And even when passions run high, elegance does not allow the real ties binding two people to be broken.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance

People , Passion

“Those with eyes to see will see your light and be enchanted by it.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?

Light

“Stay close to those who allow the light of Love to shine forth without restrictions, judgements or rewards, without letting it be blocked by the fear of being misunderstood.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?

Light , Love , Fear

“Avoid those who believe they are stronger than you, because they are actually concealing their own fragility.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?

“Stay close to those who are by your side in happy times, because they do not harbour jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy to see you happy.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?

Time , Happiness , Heart , Joy

“Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?

Love

“And time will cease to exist, because in the land of pleasure-born-of-true-love, everything is infinite.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Time , Pleasure , Love

“True lovers will be able to enter the garden of beauty without fear of being judged. They will no longer be two bodies and two souls meeting, but a single fountain out of which pours the true water of life.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Life , Soul , Beauty , Water

“When we are too generous in the sexual act and our main preoccupation is with our partner’s pleasure, our own pleasure can be diminished or even destroyed.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Pleasure

“And even if this causes major changes in our world, we have nothing to lose, because by opening the door that unites body and soul, what we will gain is total love.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Soul , World , Love , Change

“How can such opposing states exist in harmony together? There is only one way: by surrendering yourself. Because the act of surrender means: ‘I trust you.’”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Way

“If two bodies merely join together, that is not sex, it is merely pleasure. Sex goes far beyond pleasure. In sex, relaxation and tension go hand in hand, as do pain and pleasure, shyness and the courage to go beyond one’s limits.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Courage , Pain , Sex , Pleasure

“Men and women whisper to each other because they have turned a sacred gesture into a sinful act.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Women , Men

“For the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate

Time , Suffering

“For the first time, I will smile without feeling guilty, because joy is not a sin.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate

Time , Smile , Joy , Feeling

“Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Love

“Because we realised that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place. They simply left, and with every farewell comes a hidden hope.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Sun , Personality , Hope

“Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Silence , Life , Love