Paulo Coelho Quotes

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

I love and embrace change.

I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was

I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.

You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.