Variant: 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... the love that speaks the Language of the World.
Source: The Alchemist

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

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

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

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 book Aleph

Source: Aleph

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, 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.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“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.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

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

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

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

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra