Paulo Coelho Quotes

For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

I love you more than my own skin.

You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up.

My daughter is my passion and my life.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.

It's good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I'm quite a romantic.