Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho de Souzais a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. His novel The Alchemist has been translated into 80 languages. The author has sold over 200 million copies worldwide and is the all-time bestselling Portuguese language author...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1947
CityRio de Janeiro, Brazil
CountryBrazil
Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.
Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.
Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.
But if I don’t think about love, I will be nothing.
I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.
Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.
We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.
Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason." "What reason?" "That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.
So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.
Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction
The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort