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Paulo Coelho (born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist, poet and novelist. Paulo Coelho books "The Alchemist", "The Pilgrimage", "Eleven Minutes" and "Veronica Decides to Die", have been translated into 56 languages.

Selected Quotes of Paulo Coelho are:

The wise are wise only because they love.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

Stop being who you were and become who you are.

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia — love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Life attracts life.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.

Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

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.

He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe cause that wasn't really his dream.

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. … It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown — even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.

Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.

Love always triumphs over what we call death. That’s why there’s no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

I ask myself: are defeats necessary?

Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

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