Quotes about Change
Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.
— Paulo Coelho
I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way. I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.
— Paulo Coelho
Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.
— Paulo Coelho
When you love each other, you have to be ready for anything. Because love is like a kaleidoscope, the kind we used to play with when we were kids. It's in constant movement and never repeats itself. If you don't understand this, you are condemned to suffer for something that really only exists to make us happy.
— Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)
— Paulo Coelho
With every farewell comes a hidden hope.
— Paulo Coelho
sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years w/out feeling anything new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with..
— Paulo Coelho
They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.
— Paulo Coelho
According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature.
— Paulo Coelho
I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.
— Paulo Coelho
Creatures like the sheep, that are used to traveling, know about moving on.
— Paulo Coelho
It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
— Paulo Coelho