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 am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.
When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.
If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...
Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be
Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off.
You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.
He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.
Today, writers want to impress other writers.
In true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner.
I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.
You need to wake up if you want to dream.
No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs.