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
Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world.
Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.
We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.
Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity. Avoid those who talk a great deal before acting, those who never take a step without being quite sure that it will bring them respect.
Many times the wrong train took me to the right place.
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.
The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed
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.