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
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.
Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.
The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.
They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.
You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.
For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.
Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.
Somewhere you are holding the person I love," the boy said. "So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind.
ALWAYS chose the road less taken.
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.
Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.
The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.
You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.