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
There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.
No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.
In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a matter of reading the inscription He wrote for you.
Body and soul need new challenges.
The only way to make the right decision is to find out which is the wrong decision, to examine that other path without fear, and only then decide.
A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.
If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.
The person who does not make a choice dies in the eyes of the Lord, even though he continues to breathe and to walk about the streets. For a man has to choose, therein lies his strength: in the power of his decisions.
Before commencing battle, the Warrior of Light opens his heart and asks God to inspire him.
A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not used by it.
Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves.
The moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us. And saves us.
Love is looking at the same mountains from different angles.