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
I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished.
True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do
Only children believe they're capable of everything.
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.
What hurts us is what heals us
God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change
You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.
There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.
The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.
Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees
Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.
We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.
It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.