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
Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.
What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.
What we see is not always what exists.
PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure..
This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.
When you choose your attitude toward life, you can affect reality by making it better for you
It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.
It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less
Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.
Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.
But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.
If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...
But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.
we who determine how quickly time passes.