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Quotes About Emotions

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.
~ Paulo Coelho
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
~ Paulo Coelho
Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
~ Paulo Coelho
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.
~ Paulo Coelho
I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it.
~ Paulo Coelho
what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
~ Paulo Coelho
What made you fall in love with a prostitute?" "I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
All love stories are the same.
~ Paulo Coelho
Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.
~ Paulo Coelho
I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.
~ Paulo Coelho
I wanted to...feel hatred and love, despair and tedium-- all those simple, yet foolish things that make up everyday life but that give pleasure to your existence. If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy, Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they are crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.
~ Paulo Coelho
The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel...
~ Paulo Coelho
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
~ Paulo Coelho
But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
~ Paulo Coelho
I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself look ridiculous? You don't always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking. Cry if you need to,it's good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again...
~ Paulo Coelho
Love, too, was just a question of time
~ Paulo Coelho
The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.
~ Paulo Coelho
But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.
~ Paulo Coelho
Her silence was the blank space between the words.
~ Paulo Coelho
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.
~ Paulo Coelho