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
Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.
A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him.
A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.
The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom.
We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.
Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges
May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself
I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.
We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives.
Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end.
There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies.
We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.
God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom
The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.