Paulo Coelho Quotes

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.

Every time I put myself out there, I get rejected.

No one ever wants to be the girl that got her relationship wrong again, but if you let your cynicism take over you risk never falling in love.

When you win everything is great but when you're losing nobody wants to know you - except for the people that really love you.

When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

Love is not a victory march

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

I really thought that love would save us all.

nobody ever finds the one

When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

From the moment I first saw him— saw through his stunning and impossibly gorgeous exterior to the dark and dangerous man inside— I’d felt the pull that came from finding the other half of myself. I needed him like I needed my heart to beat, and he’d put himself in great jeopardy, risking everything— for me.

Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little girl, she dreamed of a fine world in which a good man walked its winding roads, perhaps somewhere in his wandering soul searching for her.

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

The more you want, the more you stand to lose

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.