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 boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.
Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".
You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.
Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny
Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.
Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.
to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.
It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.
God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
Don't think about what you've left behind.