Quote

We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.

Paulo Coelho

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
Actor
Blogger
Composer
Lyricist
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Researcher
Science Fiction Writer
Songwriter
Writer
Rio
Paulo Coelho de Souza
Feel
Feels
Unrecognized
Giving
Impose
Going
Unable
Love
Receive
Suffer
Rules
Suffering

More quotes by Paulo Coelho

Image
He has learned that it is best to follow the light.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.
Paulo Coelho
Image
When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)
Paulo Coelho
Image
He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle.
Paulo Coelho
Image
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.
Paulo Coelho
Image
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.
Paulo Coelho
Image
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena signs, the sceptics coincidence, and psychologists concentrated focus, although I've yet to find out what term historians should use).
Paulo Coelho
Image
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.
Paulo Coelho
Image
If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment.
Paulo Coelho
Image
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.
Paulo Coelho
Image
I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
Paulo Coelho
Image
That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.
Paulo Coelho
Image
In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.
Paulo Coelho