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25 Times Paulo Coelho Helped Us To Understand The Beautiful Parts Of Love

When we love we always strive to become better than we are. 
Kirsten Corley
September 6, 2016
“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, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving Love, Opening Up, Self-improvement, Self-Help, Self-Love
“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. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.””
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life, Accepting Love, Change
“Love is like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he’s not there, you feel like an addict who can’t get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you’re willing to do anything for love.”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Love, Addiction, Relationships, Co-dependency, Fear, Co-dependent Relationships
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: heart, Identity, Listening To Your Heart, Trust Yourself
“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, The Alchemist
Tagged: Relationships, Love
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, heart, texts, Things To Say To Your Girlfriend
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, Inspirational
“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life
“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Dating, Relationships, Love
“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. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.”
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“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, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Delux Collection - Paulo Coelho: Box Set
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“Love simply is.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Delux Collection - Paulo Coelho: Box Set
Tagged: Dating, Relationships, Love
“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
Tagged: Dating, Love, Relationships
“When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Delux Collection - Paulo Coelho: Box Set
Tagged: Dating, Love, Relationships
“To love is to lose control.”
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
Tagged: Dating, Love, Relationships
“It's risky, falling in love.”
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
Tagged: Relationship, Love
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph (Vintage International)
Tagged: Dating, Love, Relationships
“Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Delux Collection - Paulo Coelho: Box Set
Tagged: Relationships, Love
“She wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage (Plus)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life
“Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.’”
— Paulo Coelho, The Delux Collection - Paulo Coelho: Box Set
Tagged: Love, Relationships, First Love
“I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Delux Collection - Paulo Coelho: Box Set
Tagged: Dating, Love, Relationships