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.
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.
When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.
One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.
Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it
Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.
Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."