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
Emotions are wild horses.
All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas.
The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.
Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.
To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.
Each person is different and each one will reach God by his or her own path.
Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.
The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.
A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.
God judges a tree by its fruits and not by its roots.
The warrior of light listens to what his opponent has to say. He only fights if absolutely necessary.
The light of love drives away the darkness of guilt.