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
Fear of failure leads to failure.
You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.
People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.
life is the moment we're living right now.
Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.
There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.