Category: Paulo Coelho

“Forgiving is a two-way street. Whenever we forgive someone, we are also forgiving ourselves.” – Paulo Coelho, Stories About Forgiveness

“I prefer to accept my loneliness. If I try to run away from it now, I’ll never find a partner again. If I accept it, rather than fight against it, things might change. I’ve noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.” – Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in a field, you will keep it forever.” – Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Love gets lost when we start laying down rules for when love should or shouldn’t appear.” – Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“We are all part of the divine spark. We all have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called love. Wake up to that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized.” – Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

“It is not difficult to rebuild a life. We simply have to be aware that we continue with the same degree of strength we had before and know how to use that strength in our favour.” – Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

“There is no love in peace. Anyone seeking peace through love is lost. She could not think of a single moment when love had brought her peace. It had always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joy and profound sadness.” – Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries

“I had to lose her in order to understand that the taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.” – Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“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 most free, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly. And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.” – Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“True love can withstand separation.” – Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello