Paulo Coelho Quotes

You date somebody, and you have this obviously intense experience where you share a life together in whatever way that is for how many years.

The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that, they say anything's possible, right?

My eyes and spirit have opened up since I found someone that I get to share my life with.

There's a tremendous power and energy in sharing your life with another person.

I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

It feels good to be a couple of characters, sometimes in the same day.