Paulo Coelho Quotes

If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."

Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

I love being lost! I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone. I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people, we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life and I don't have a problem with that.

Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.

Love without attachment is light.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

Yet it is only love which sets us free.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

When Patanjali says "non-attachment", he is not anti-love. Really, he is for love. Non-attachment means be natural, loving, flowing, but don't get obsessed and addicted. Addiction is the problem. Then it is like a disease. You cannot love anybody except your child - this is addiction. Then you will be in misery. Your child can die; then there is no possibility for your love to flow. Even if your child is not going to die, he will grow. And the more he grows, the more he will become independent. And then there will be pain. Every mother suffers, every father suffers.

This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.

If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

If you love someone, set them free.

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.