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
The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.
In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.
That's the problem, we do get used to things.
What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.
Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.
Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.
No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs.
The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.
Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange
You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.
Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything.