Paulo Coelho Quotes

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, But finally illumine him.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn't mean we're not going to fight them.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.