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
Comparing is impoverishing your own experience
Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.
Love is what dreams are made of!
Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory
Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.
Enthusiasm is the force that leads us to the final victory.
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.