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
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.
The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.
Most human beings still cannot trust love.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity. Avoid those who talk a great deal before acting, those who never take a step without being quite sure that it will bring them respect.
PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure..
But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.
The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence.
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.
Every human being has inside them something more important than him or herself - his or her Gift.
We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that w
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute for experience.