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
About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.
Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able to choose between one road and another. May our YES always be a YES and our NO always be a NO. Once we have chosen our road, may we never look back nor allow our soul to be eaten away by remorse. And in order for this to be possible.
God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.
Love is the force that brings us back together, in order to condense the experience dispersed in many lives and many parts of the world.
Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.
In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last.
What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.
Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.
It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.
You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.