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
You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill.
We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.
I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies...