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
If we don't face our fears, our fears will chase us forever.
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop
Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.
Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain. Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.
You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.
After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others.