51 phrases by Caio Fernando Abreu to move your heart – 42 phrases

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.

Caio Fernando Abreu

May there be no lack of good feelings. May we lack selfishness. That about patience. May we not lack hope. May each chosen path reserve us good surprises. May each of us know how to listen to every piece of advice given by an older person. May we not lack the desire to smile. May none of us forget the strength he possesses. May there be no lack of faith and love.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I’m moving away from everything that delays me, deceives me, holds me and holds me back. I’m getting closer to everything that makes me complete, makes me happy and wants me well.

Caio Fernando Abreu

It was so beautiful to see you for the first time and think without words: I want to.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Better the restlessness of a love, than the peace of an empty heart.

Caio Fernando Abreu

And we remember. And it doesn’t hurt anymore. But miss it.

Caio Fernando Abreu

My heart is hurt from loving wrong.

Caio Fernando Abreu

And if I look at you a hundred times, believe me, each time I’ll be falling in love a little more.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I feel jealous when someone hugs you, because for a second that person is holding my entire world.

Caio Fernando Abreu

If tomorrow what I dreamed isn’t quite that, I’ll pull a rainbow out of my hat. And I redo. Lap. Pin and edge. Because the strength from within is greater. Greater than all evil in the world. Greater than all headwinds. It is greater because it is good. And in that, yes, I believe until the end.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I confess that I need smiles, hugs, chocolates, good movies, patience and things like that.

Caio Fernando Abreu

There are things about us that are not a defect or error, they are just the way we are.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I think we have to win. Or fight. And be fine. Happy. Create. To do. Move. I hate self-destruction.

Caio Fernando Abreu

tell me about you. We must not get lost, we are so few, my friend. Take care of yourself, don’t suffer needlessly, love me. Wish you well.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I’ve always been a little rough, closed off, I’ve always had difficulty receiving love. In fact, I’ve always needed affection, only I wouldn’t admit it before.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I learned to enjoy living and being happy.

Caio Fernando Abreu

And I believe in the mechanism of infinity, making everything happen at the right time.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Of course, I’m afraid that I’m turning into an intoxicated creature of written words — I have future visions where I see myself locked in a place with the walls covered with books, maybe cats, a sound and nothing else. My heart is hurt from loving wrong, do you understand me?

Caio Fernando Abreu

After I started taking care of the garden I learned so many things, one of them is that you shouldn’t decree the death of a sunflower before its time. And that plants feel pain, like us.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I need security, love, understanding, attention, someone who sits with me and says, “Calm down, I’m with you.”

Caio Fernando Abreu

There is so much to be done and to be written and lived that I think it’s silly to waste time.

Caio Fernando Abreu

It’s time to do everything you ever wanted. And it’s wonderful to see that everything I’ve ever wanted is simple, beautiful, accessible, easy and good.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I hate circuses. In fact, I hate everything that delights me and then leaves.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I don’t even keep money, will I hold grudges and grievances?

Caio Fernando Abreu

Isn’t that what I thought of another grown-up thing? This is how it is: everything that looks kind of silly is always very beautiful, because there’s no complication. Simple thing is beautiful. And there is very little.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Today I woke up to live, get up and move on.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I discovered delicious things about myself, such as a superficial and fake person could never stand being around me.

Caio Fernando Abreu

(…) spare me the trouble of guessing your thoughts. Tell me you want me only when it is true. I will not ask you anything. I won’t charge you for what you can’t give me.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Anyway, I find again that literature, this bitch-goddess, is the thing I have loved most in life.

Caio Fernando Abreu

After several storms and shipwrecks, what remains in me is more and more essential and true.

Caio Fernando Abreu

First, passion must be discreet, silent, centered. If you start spreading to the seven winds, man, it goes wrong.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Deliver me from everything that holds back laughter.

Caio Fernando Abreu

At least I’m alive. On the move, walking around, losing or winning, getting beat up, trying to love.

Caio Fernando Abreu

It doesn’t matter how many coins you toss into the fountain or the number of fingers you cross, if it’s not meant to be, it won’t be!

Caio Fernando Abreu

But out of all this, I got so many good things. A good memory of you, a desire to take better care of myself, to be better for myself and for others.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Another thing I think about when I think about those pink grapes is that, in life, the sweetest things take a long time to ripen.

Caio Fernando Abreu

In a desert of also deserted souls, a special soul immediately recognizes the other.

Caio Fernando Abreu

The seed refused to surface, I didn’t always have the time or desire to water it, and it didn’t rain anymore – that’s what happened.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Suddenly we find ourselves on a corner, on another planet, in the middle of a party or a cesspool, we meet, I’m sure.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Turn up the volume. Or turn it off forever, do you understand me?

Caio Fernando Abreu

Many things that yesterday seemed important or significant tomorrow will turn to dust in the filter of memory. But the smile… Ah, this one will resist all the snares of time.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I believe that this girl, deep down, likes these things: to fall in love, to throw herself in a river where she doesn’t know if she can swim.

Caio Fernando Abreu

We don’t realize that life is a gift, that health is a blessing. People are very distracted from it.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Explain to me, that sometimes I’m afraid. I don’t have it anymore, like now, when the wind stops and the sun hits the greens again. Even without understanding, I want to continue here where it is constantly dawning.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I think I’m strong enough to get out of every situation I got into, even though I was weak enough to get in.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Chasing butterflies on empty stomachs, making that addictive laugh mirror car windows and puddles.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Because deep down I know that the reality I dreamed of sank into a glass of cachaça and became utopia.

Caio Fernando Abreu

When you miss a person too much, then you start seeing them in others, everywhere.

Caio Fernando Abreu

I’ve been trying to learn to be humble. Swallowing the no’s that life shoves down my throat.

Caio Fernando Abreu

What if I magically changed my fate? (…) Strange, but it is always as if there is a fixed, pre-determined script behind free will, which cannot be violated.

Caio Fernando Abreu