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
Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this miracle today, it will be lost.
If you understand life...you MUST be misinformed!
Impossible is just an opinion.
Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.
What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?
People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.
Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.
The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.
From the moment that you feel enthusiastic about everything, you know that you are following your heart.
The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.
Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
Everyday God gives us the sun, and also the moment in wich have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Our magic moment helps us to change and send us off in search of our dreams.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.