“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling In Love, Fell In Love, Lost in Love, Surrendering To Love
“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You are what you believe yourself to be. Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of ev…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Athena's great problem was that she was a woman of the twenty-second century living in the twenty-first, and making no secret of the fact, either. Did she pay a price? She certainly did. But she would have paid a still higher price if she had repressed her natural exuberance. She would have been bit…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia — love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want?”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Happiness, Anxiety, H4D-5
“Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the tr…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, Holding On
“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, amazon.comTagged: Heartbreak, Pain, Love
“You are what you believe yourself to be.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Achieve, Dream, Wish, Want, Hope