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
Just try to love, and manifest it. When your heart is open, there is this energy of love that flows in, fulfills everything and somehow transmutes itself into actions.
One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.
If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.
Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.
May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.
From the moment that you don't fear to share your heart, you are a free person.
I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams
Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away
Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things
Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Dream is also just a word until you decide to fight for it with all your enthusiasm and commitment
Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.
Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.
Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul