Paulo Coelho Quotes

If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

Honestly, I think people change after meeting someone you love.

That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of anybody else. He's a very fine rabbit; he's been constructed incredibly well, and he has a wardrobe of amazing clothing. He's arrogant, and he doesn't care whether Abilene loves him or not. As the journey progresses, as he gets passed from hand to hand, he learns what it means to love. He gets more and more bedraggled, and his clothing is lost; yet he becomes finer in soul and heart than he was at the beginning of the journey.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.