Paulo Coelho Quotes

We forgive just so long as we love.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

We do not judge the people we love.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

In this world where we live, some people are going to love you, some people are going to hate you - that's what it is. You cannot try to force everybody to love you, it's not gonna work.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

It's easy to love people who love you.