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
Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.
Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.
Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.
Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.
fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.
You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.
Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.
she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.
When you # travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of # rebirth .
You will fail many times but in failing you'll learn and in learning you'll find your way. Remember, there are no mistakes in life but only lessons, and lessons will keep on repeating until learned
Everyone has their own way of learning.
The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.
Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.