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 can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.
And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.
Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that...in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.
Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.
It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be someone who I am I found myself. When I was humilated and yet I kept on walking, I realised I was free to choose my own Destiny