Paulo Coelho Quotes

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.

would you dare to love me?

Does he love me? “You’re asking the wrong question. What you need to know is are you in a position to give him the love he needs. And whatever happens or doesn’t happen will be equally gratifying, knowing that you are capable of love is enough. If it isn’t him, it will be someone else… Don’t try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don’t wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

I've always thrown myself into love in a rather carefree way, and the net result is that you do get hurt. But I wouldn't take away any of the experiences of my life.

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

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

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Love without attachment is light.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

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.

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.