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
The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.
Interpretation
True love requires both freedom and loyalty to thrive.
In this quote, Paulo Coelho emphasizes the importance of freedom in a loving relationship. He suggests that for loyalty to flourish, each partner must feel free to be themselves, thus fostering a genuine and deep connection that transcends mere obligation or possession.
In practice
In a wedding speech highlighting the importance of trust 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.
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.
You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his.
Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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