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
You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks. No one can posses the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind.
I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -
Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.
It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.
Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little,but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.
When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on
Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.
...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.
When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.
Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.
One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.
When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.
The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.