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 moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.
Interpretation
What this quote means
When we look for love, it often finds us in return and helps us in life.
This quote by Paulo Coelho suggests that the act of searching for love is reciprocal; as we express our desire for connection and affection, we attract love towards ourselves. It highlights the transformative power of love, which not only fulfills us emotionally but also serves as a source of support and salvation in difficult times.
Themes
LoveSeekingConnectionSupportTransformation
In practice
Example use cases
In a wedding speech to highlight the journey of the couple's love.
More from Paulo Coelho
All quotes βEach 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
The people who give you their food give you their heart.
Cesar ChavezRead
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
Hans KungRead
It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet.
Stephen KingRead
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute at some time or other to Love, and it is vain to strive to avoid it. I was a philosopher, yet this tyrant of the mind triumphed over all my wisdom; his darts were of greater force than all my reasonings, and with a sweet constraint he led me wherever he pleased.
Peter AbelardRead
People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.
Anne Morrow LindberghRead
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Marianne WilliamsonRead