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
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
You should treat a muse like a fairy.
My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.