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
As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.
The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better term. But it’s a concept that’s rarely given a proper explanation. It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.
Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.
When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.
We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.
It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.
That's the problem, we do get used to things.
Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.
All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.
We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.
A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.
Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.
No one should let themselves get used to anything.