Paulo Coelho Quotes

Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

I know, you love me and soon you will see, you were meant for me and I was meant for you

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.

Love is our true destiny.

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.