Paulo Coelho: Quotes about love (page 6)

“Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them”

“Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears.”

“Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment… But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.”

“Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.”

“Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.”

“We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.”

“In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”

“Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.”

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.”

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

“Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.”

“For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.”

“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.”

“I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.”

“Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

“we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun. But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.”

“Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.”

“Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.”

“A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.”