Paulo Coelho Quotes

It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.

Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.

If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.

Let your broken heart create an open heart

We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

I've had relationships before where you break up, and you think you're going to die, and then you realise you're definitely not going to die, and actually, you're probably better off without them.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

I think, for other people who have lost someone and have loved again, it's a beautiful thing. But it's just not really on my horizon.

By getting hurt, you might realize that what you thought you wanted and needed wasn't actually right for you. And that's a lesson only heartbreak and pain can teach you.

You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from.

Breaking apart from someone you love very much can be unbearably painful, but finding yourself again can be a beautiful thing if you do your solitude right.

A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.

Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.

Love heals scars love left