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Quotes from By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept — Paulo Coelho

born 1947 Brazil

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We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

But that moment exists — a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

You have to take risks … We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown — even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paulo Coelho (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.