Lore Van Achter > Lore's Quotes

“Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to
give up all the other important things.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path.
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now.
‘I’m afraid of committing myself,’ she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic dissappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Choosing a path means having to miss out on others”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...."
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"I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Problems of the heart always bruised the soul.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida