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Love Quotes by Famous Authors

Paulo Coelho is considered as one of the most popular authors today. He has written a lot of best-selling books. He wrote the book entitled “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept” and from there, hundreds of love quotes have been quoted from the author. Paulo Coelho is also among the most influential writers today. Some of the books that he wrote include Eleven Minutes and Veronika Decides to Die. A lot of famous love quotes from this author had been circulating from text messages to e-mails and to even to blog sites. Below are some of the best love quotes from his book, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept.

“One does not love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we perceive the other as a simple object, and we seeing ourselves as wise and generous persons. This has nothing to do with love. To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God”.

“At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.”

“The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.”

“True love is an act of total surrender.”

“Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments – but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

“Love perseveres. Its men who change”.

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