Paulo Coelho Quotes

A good woman is one who loves her husband and loves her country and has no desire to run either of them.

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

If Love dwelt not in Trouble, it could have nothing to love. But its substance which it loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble and pain, it hath thence cause to love this its own substance and to deliver it from pain, that so itself may by it be again beloved.

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Pain is love.

Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

I'm married to a very generous woman.

I am not ordering you to fight for your country. I am ordering you to die for your country!

What pity it is That we can die but once for our country!

We will never bring disgrace to this, our country, by any act of cowardice. We will fight for the ideals of this, our country. We will revere and obey the laws. We will strive to quicken our sense of civic duty. Thus, in all these ways, we will transmit this country greater, better, stronger, prouder and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.

Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.

If we can develop the character and work with God, then let him develop the character of Christ in us, we're going to become the best possible husband, the best possible wife.

I'm not cut out for that life; for sharing my life. Whether it's getting married, or having kids. That too drastically changes your life. Everything important to you becomes less important, because the child gains utmost importance.