Paulo Coelho Quotes

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

I can only give away the love that I have received.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave

The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

You can't always trust people with your heart, but you should still love anyway. That's what I would say.

You have one heart, and once you give it away, it's gone. If you wear it on your sleeve, a lot of people are there to take advantage of it.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

Take love when love is given.

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.