Paulo Coelho Quotes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.

We work to become, not to acquire.

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.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

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

Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

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

It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.

You can change. You can be more than you are.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

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.

Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.