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
If you want to be faithful to someone, start by being faithful to yourself.
Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.
Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.
To heal my wounds, I need to be brave enough to face them.
The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed
Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.
We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.
I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits
Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that...in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.
Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.
The best way to be original is to be yourself.
The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.