Paulo Coelho Quotes

I believe now that love is letting people in. Love is bigger than all of us.

Let my love open the door To yourheart.

As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

You could penetrate anybody if you consistently put out love. Some people can't handle it.

I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is and let yourself fall.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.

There are many doors to the heart.

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

You got to be able to love again. You got to give everybody a fair chance. Everybody deserves a fair chance. I'm talking about building that wall, coming out of a relationship and feeling like, well, I'm going to hold back. You turn into your ex. When you find a person that's worth letting your wall down , and you feel it in your stomach, just don't fight it. Just let it happen.

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.