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
We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.
Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.
One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought tat was just the way life was. My life anf everybody else's.
Follow your dreams and take your risks.
Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be
Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.
With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.
Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees
The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.
There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.
God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change
What hurts us is what heals us
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.