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
A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.
If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.
The person who does not make a choice dies in the eyes of the Lord, even though he continues to breathe and to walk about the streets. For a man has to choose, therein lies his strength: in the power of his decisions.
Before commencing battle, the Warrior of Light opens his heart and asks God to inspire him.
A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not used by it.
Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves.
The moment we set off in search of love, it sets off in search of us. And saves us.
Love is looking at the same mountains from different angles.
We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to
All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.
All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.
We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.
The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.
Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.