Paulo Coelho Quotes

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

The greatest enemy to love is your pride

What men yearn for they often destroy.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

A match made in heaven set the fires in hell.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us. Sometimes people fall for the complete antithesis of everything they believe they're looking for.

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.