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
Everything we see… is just the visible part of reality.
The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.
Go for the impossible. I always tried to find my own limits. So far I did not find them, so my universe is in constant expansion.
Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.
You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.
I never say I am a guru.
I don't try to control my days.
I'm not a person that socializes very well.
Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.
You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination
I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.
It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God.
A responsible warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.
I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.