"Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere." ― Paulo Coelho Topic(s): Love More From Paulo Coelho "I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong." "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." "If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it." More In Love "Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow."― John Lennon "In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."― Erich Fromm "But love’s a malady without a cure."― John Dryden