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
The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.
The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.
There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.
You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.
In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.
I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.
People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.
A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.
No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.
God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.
Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they ask questions. Because they continue to look for a meaning. And, in the end, they will find it.