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
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
Tears are words that need to be written.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Enthusiasm is the force that leads us to the final victory.
But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.
All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.
What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.
We are here because we are made by God, we will return to God. So people who think that they are something, they are totally wrong. And this is the most beautiful thing in life, it is that we don't own anything. So, everything is ours in the sense that we have the world to explore and not things to carry, a burden to carry.
I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded my house and Love flooded my soul.
If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.
Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.