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32 Times Paulo Coelho Simplistically Defined What It Means To Both Be In Love And Be Hurt

Love simply is. 
Kirsten Corley
October 19, 2016
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept
Tagged: Waiting, Forgetting, Moving On, Limbo, Suffering, Pain
“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”
— Paulo Coelho, Maktub
Tagged: Love, Inspirational, Paulo Coelho, Maktub, Books
“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
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Loneliness, Love, Belonging, Being Alone, Pain, Grief, Loss
“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Love, Writing
“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Love, Pain, Loss, Grief, Breakups
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Slowly, I began to realize that I could not go back and force things to be as they once were: those two years, which up until then had seemed an endless inferno, were now beginning to show me their true meaning.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Endings, Beginnings, Starting Over, Reflection, Destiny
“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
“I can read your eyes. I can read your heart. You are going to fall in love. And suffer. ”
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
Tagged: Love, Suffering, Falling In Love, Paulo Coelho
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Suffering, Love
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, True Love, Loving, Reason
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Secret, Life, Happiness, Try Again, Failing
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Tagged: Faith, Trust, Happening Future
“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello
Tagged: Heartbreak, Pain, Love
“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Love, Set Free, Letting Go
“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Tagged: Relationships, Love, Understanding
“To love is to lose control.”
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
Tagged: Love, Relationship, Life
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Forever Love
“We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Dating Advice, Love, Relationships, Ending
“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
“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 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
“It's risky, falling in love.”
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
Tagged: Relationship, 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