I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.
Interpretation
True love embraces acceptance and personal growth.
This quote by Paulo Coelho emphasizes that genuine love involves unconditional acceptance of one's partner, allowing each individual the freedom to evolve and grow in their unique ways. It suggests that love is not about changing someone to fit your ideals, but rather supporting and nurturing their personal journey.
In practice
In a wedding speech highlighting the importance of acceptance in a marriage.
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.
I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.
I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin - and it took a lot of praying to discover this - that this was probably what God had called me to do: to marry him.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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