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
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."
Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.
Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.
Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.
Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success
Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.
The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend
He accepts his Personal Legend completely.
Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved for him.
I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.
If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.
If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
You must always know what it is that you want.