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
Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
When you drink water, don't forget the fountain.
Enjoy the questions because they open many doors. Forget the answers because they always change.
If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now.
Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.
The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.
We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.
Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.
Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.
Forget about shortcuts. Instead, enjoy the wonders of your path.
I still pray but it's something automatic, and I'm not even sure I still believe in it... Because I've suffered, and God didn't listen to my prayers. because many times in my life I have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being
It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny 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 destiny.
We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that w