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
The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.
A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. he can walk a thousand roads and join many religions and sects- but he'll never find God that way. God is here, right now, at our side. In order to find God, you have to only to look around.
I recalled how much time i had spent fighting for something i didn't even want. maybe because i had been too lazy to think of other avenues to follow. maybe because i had been afraid of what others would think. maybe because it was hard work to be different. perhaps, because a human being is condemned to repeat the steps taken by the previous generation until a certain number of people begin to behave in a different fashion. then the world changes, and we change with it.
Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval
Do you know what gives a woman most pleasure within marriage? 'Sex'? ..No, making food. Watching her man eat
We all harbour a great sadness in our soul
There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.
History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.
Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something
The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage.
He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.
Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.
Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts.
Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering.