Paulo Coelho Quotes

History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time. History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

"I want to change you" - that is not a revolution. "I'm willing to change" - now this is a revolution.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world.

Revolutions never go backward.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Energy is an eternal delight.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

I love challenging the status quo.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.