Paulo Coelho Quotes

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

No man can lose what he never had.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

The easiest way to lose something is to want it too badly.

All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.

We only keep what we lose.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Love without attachment is light.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

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

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

Do we need distance to get close?

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.