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
But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life. By taking risks’ she said to Brida. ‘ By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Finding a soulmate requires courage and perseverance in the face of potential disappointments.
In this quote, Paulo Coelho emphasizes the importance of taking risks in the pursuit of love and relationships. Brida learns that asking about her soulmate is a significant step, and that the journey itself, filled with potential failures and heartaches, is essential. The key message is that the search for love is worth the risks involved, and persistence will ultimately lead to success in finding true connection.
Themes
SoulmateLoveRiskSearchRelationship
In practice
Example use cases
In a romantic speech, to express the importance of perseverance in love.
More from Paulo Coelho
All quotes →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.
Paulo CoelhoRead
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.
Paulo CoelhoRead
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Paulo CoelhoRead
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Similar quotes
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James ThurberRead
I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.
George MichaelRead
We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.
Harper LeeRead
Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.
R. Buckminster FullerRead
To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
Jeanette WinterRead
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Michael JacksonRead