Paulo Coelho Quotes

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

My future's about trying to be a better man.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

"This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.

You have to change on the inside before change will happen on the outside.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

Every morning when I wake and every night when I go to sleep, I'm thinking about what I can do to become a better father and a better person.

I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.

I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

I truly believe that when you've found the one you're searching for, you become a better version of yourself. You're better for it.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.