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
There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.
He who loves has conquered the world and has no fear of losing anything. True love is an act of total surrender.
He too shares his world with the people he loves.
We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill.
Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.
Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.
Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.
The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world.
Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.
That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.
The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.
A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world.