Quotes about Relationships
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.
— Paulo Coelho
i am convinced that 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.
— Paulo Coelho
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.
— Paulo Coelho
Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend.
— Paulo Coelho
Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.
— Paulo Coelho
If someone is capable of loving his partner without restrictions, unconditionally, then he is manifesting the love of God. If the love of God becomes manifest, he will love his neighbor. If he loves his neighbor, he will love himself. If he loves himself, then everything returns to its proper place.
— Paulo Coelho
She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature
— Paulo Coelho
Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.
— Paulo Coelho
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
— Paulo Coelho
Friendship never forgets that its only reason for existing is to love other people.
— Paulo Coelho
Love is an act of faith in another pesron, not an act of surrender.
— Paulo Coelho
A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.
— Paulo Coelho