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
Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.
Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.
Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.
Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.
Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.
..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.
Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.
Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.
When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.
Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.
You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.
In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.