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
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
Those who never take risks can only see other people's failures.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.
Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue
Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ♥
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.
Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem
Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.
Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny
If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday
If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it