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
Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.
Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.
As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave.
To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
Remember the saying, What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger? It's true!
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.
Be a source of joy. And let haters complain about the world.
But that moment exists - a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.
Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment.
No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.
A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.