Brazilian poet and novelist Paulo Coelho was born on August 24, 1947. In total, Paulo Coelho has written and published more than 20 books - novels, collections of short stories, parables, and other anthologies. The books have been translated into 67 languages ​​and published in 150 countries, with a total circulation of 86 million books sold by Paulo Coelho.

In Russia, the writer became famous after the publication of The Alchemist. This book has been in the top ten bestsellers for a very long time.

Despite his great success, many critics consider him an insignificant writer whose work is too simple or call his work "commercial" and market-oriented. 1988) Paulo Coelho, quotes from other books, and in conclusion short biography Paulo Coelho.

A little about the content of the book "The Alchemist". Main character- A young shepherd named Santiago had a dream that treasures were hidden near the pyramids in Egypt. The sage who met says that finding these treasures is Santiago's calling, and advises the shepherd to go in search. Santiago sells his sheep and heads to Egypt. On the way, all his savings are stolen from him, but Santiago does not give up and gets a job in a shop that sells crystal. After working there for a year, and having accumulated the required amount, the former shepherd sets off on a journey. On the way, Santiago meets a man who talks about alchemy and the dream of creating the Elixir of Immortality. It is necessary to find the Philosopher's Stone, capable of turning everything into gold, and his life's search lies in this. Santiago continues his journey, as a result of which he overcomes many obstacles, successfully coping with all the difficulties that stand in his way, and finds his treasures. True, they are not at all where he expected to find them.

Quotes from The Alchemist

Only one thing makes the fulfillment of a dream impossible - it is the fear of failure.

Love will never separate a person from his Path.

In love there is no good and evil, there is no creation and destruction. There is only movement. And love changes the laws of nature.

Love cannot prevent a person from following his destiny. If this happens, it means that love was not true, not the one that speaks the Common Language.

They love because they love. Love does not recognize arguments.

Life is generous to those who follow their destiny

Every person living on earth is waiting for his treasure.

Those for whom the days are similar to each other, stop noticing all the good things that happen in their lives.

People very quickly learn what the meaning of their life is. Maybe that's why they just as quickly and refuse it. That's the way the world works.

“Life is interesting because dreams can come true in it.”

From now on, the desert will become more important. Fatima will peer into it, trying to guess which star Santiago is heading for in search of her treasures. She will send kisses with the wind in the hope that he will touch his face and tell him that she is alive, that she is waiting for him. From now on, the desert will mean only one thing for Fatima: Santiago will return to her from there.

Love cannot prevent a person from following His Destiny. If this happens, it means that love was not true, not the one that speaks the Common Language.

When the same people are around you, it seems to be by itself that they enter your life. And having entered your life, after a while they want to change it. And if you become not the way they want to see you, they are offended. Everyone knows exactly how to live in the world

For some reason, no one can manage their own life. It's kind of like an old gypsy woman who knows how to interpret dreams, but she can't make them come true.

When one day is like another, people stop noticing the good things that happen in their lives every day after sunrise.

Man cannot choose his own destiny. She tries to make everyone believe the biggest lie in the world. It sounds like this: at some point in our existence, we lose control over our lives, and fate begins to control it. There is nothing more deceitful.

This is what you've always wanted to do. Every man, entering the age of youth, knows what his Path is. During these years, everything is clear, everything is possible, everything is possible, and people are not afraid to dream about what they would like to do in life. But then time passes, and some mysterious forces, intervening, try to prove that it is impossible to follow Their Paths.

When I pastured my sheep, I was happy and spread happiness around me. People rejoiced when I came to them, and received me as an honored guest. And now I'm sad and unhappy. And I don't know what to do. I will become angry and distrustful and will suspect everyone just because one person deceived me. I will hate those who managed to find the treasure, because I did not succeed. I will cling to the littleness that I have, because I am too small and insignificant to comprehend the whole world.

The main thing is not to be afraid that nothing will come of it.

There is no need to be afraid of the unknown, because everyone is able to find what he wants, to get what he needs.

When you really want something, the whole Universe will help to ensure that your desire comes true.

Every person on earth, no matter what he does, plays leading role in the history of the world. And usually they don't even know about it.

We are all afraid to fulfill our most cherished dreams, because it seems to us that we are not worthy of them or that we will not be able to realize them anyway.

There is only one way of comprehension, answered the Alchemist. - Act.

You can not relax even for a moment, even when you have overcome a long journey. And you can love the desert, but you cannot trust it completely. For the desert is a test for a person: it is worth being distracted even for a moment - and you are lost.

People do not attach importance to simple things, and therefore they began to write philosophical treatises.

When you really want something, the whole Universe will help to ensure that your desire comes true.

For every loss, there are two wins.

Dreams are the language that the Lord speaks to us

You have to choose between what you are used to and what you are drawn to.

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Until now, only stones and plants understand that everything in the world is one.

If you promise something that you do not possess, you will lose the desire to possess.

The look shows the strength of the soul.

The wind changes the shape of the sand dunes, but the desert remains the same

Some quotes from other works by Paulo Coelho

Where we are expected, we always find ourselves right on time. ("The Magician's Diary", 1987)

Why on earth did it suddenly occur to me to save the whole world? After all, I still can hardly save myself. ("The Magician's Diary", 1987)

Even a broken watch shows the correct time twice a day... (Brida, 1990)

People always destroy what they love the most. ("Valkyries", 1992)

Love is a drug. At first, there is euphoria, lightness, a feeling of complete dissolution. You want more the next day. You haven't had time to get involved yet, but while you like the feeling, you're sure you can do without them. You think about your favorite being for 2 minutes and forget about it for 3 hours. But gradually you get used to it and get completely addicted. And then, you think about it for three hours and forget for two minutes. (“On the banks of the Rio Piedra, I sat down and cried”, 1994)

Love manages to survive only when there is hope - however distant, that we will be able to conquer the one we love! (“On the banks of the Rio Piedra, I sat down and cried”, 1994)

Use every moment so that later you do not repent and do not regret that you missed your youth. The Lord sends trials to a person at any age. ("The Fifth Mountain", 1996)

So learn something. Nowadays, people have lost interest in life: they don’t get bored, they don’t cry, they just wait when time will pass. They have given up the struggle, and life has given up on them. This threatens you too: act, boldly go forward, but do not give up on life. ("The Fifth Mountain", 1996)

The best way to recognize and destroy an enemy is to become his friend. ("The Fifth Mountain", 1996)

Just because you've been discharged from an insane asylum doesn't mean you've been cured. You just became like everyone else. ("Veronica decides to die", 1998)

We all need a little madness. ("Veronica decides to die", 1998)

First of all, do not believe in promises. And there are so many of them in the world - they promise wealth, salvation of the soul, love to the grave. There are people who consider themselves entitled to promise anything. There are others - they agree to believe in any promises, if only they would guarantee them a different, better fate. You treat them. Those who promise and do not keep promises eventually become powerless and worthless. And the same thing happens to those gullible who grasp at the promise. ("The Devil and Senorita Prim", 2000)

The best way to weaken the enemy is to convince him that you are giving in to him and agreeing with his intentions. ("The Devil and Senorita Prim", 2000)

All women are sure that a man does not need anything but these eleven minutes of pure sex, and he pays a lot of money for them. But this is not so: a man, in essence, is no different from a woman: he also needs to meet someone and find the meaning of life. ("Eleven minutes", 2003)

Feeling unhappy all the time is an unaffordable luxury. ("Zaire", 2005)

I knew this news from childhood: one country threatens another, someone has betrayed someone, the economy is in decline, Israel and Palestine have not come to an agreement in the past fifty years, another explosion, another hurricane left thousands of people homeless . ("Zaire", 2005)

Love cannot be measured like the length of a road or the height of a building. ("The Witch of Portobello", 2006)

There is always something incomplete in desire. For, when fulfilled, it ceases to be a desire. ("The Witch of Portobello", 2006)

fame syndrome. This is when people forget who they are and start believing what they are told. ("The winner remains alone", 2008)

Chance is not the only one, life will surely provide another one. ("The winner remains alone", 2008)

Everything always ends well. If everything ended badly, then this is not the end.

Sometimes you need to go around the whole world to understand that the treasure is buried at your own house.

If you are able to see the beautiful, it is only because you carry the beautiful within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees his own reflection.

What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.

When you really want something, the whole Universe will help to ensure that your desire comes true.

If I do exactly the things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.

Life is always waiting for the right moment to act.

Getting lost is the best way find something interesting.

The darkest hour is before dawn.

If a person is yours, then he is yours, and if he is drawn somewhere else, then nothing will hold him back, and he is not worth either nerves or attention.

Everything in the world is different manifestations one and the same.

Everyone says anything in the back, but in the eyes - what is beneficial.

If love changes a person quickly, then despair - even faster.

Where we are expected, we always find ourselves right on time.

Life is sometimes surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door - and an avalanche falls on him.

Waiting is the hardest part.

Our angels are always with us and often they use someone's lips to tell us something.

Feeling unhappy all the time is an unaffordable luxury.

There are people who were born into the world to go through life alone, this is not bad and not good, this is life.

Never give up on a dream! Dreams nourish our soul, just as food nourishes the body. No matter how many times in our lives we have to go through a crash and see our hopes shattered, we must still continue to dream.

Sometimes you have to run to see who runs after you. Sometimes you have to speak softer to see who is really listening to you.

Sometimes you have to take a step back to see who else is on your side. Sometimes you have to make the wrong decisions to see who's with you when things fall apart.

Once I found all the answers, all the questions changed.

We say the most important words in our lives silently.

Sometimes you have to die to start living.

People want to change everything and at the same time want everything to remain the same.

What you are looking for is also looking for you.

Always say what you feel and do what you think! Silence breaks fate...

Man does the opposite. He hurries to become an adult, and then sighs about the past childhood. Spends health for money and immediately spends money to improve health.

He thinks about the future with such impatience that he neglects the present, because of which he has neither a present nor a future. Lives as if he will never die, and dies as if he never lived.

Having reached the end, people laugh at the fears that tormented them at the beginning.

It happens sometimes that life separates two people - just to show both how important they are to each other.

Biography

Paulo Coelho (port. Paulo Coelho) was born August 24, 1947, Rio de Janeiro in the family of an engineer. The father wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, but from his youth, Paulo decides that he will be a writer. The young man was not going to follow his parents' will, and this leads to the fact that after many disputes he is sent to a psychiatric hospital, where he undergoes electric shock treatment. It is suspected that he has schizophrenia. Paulo managed to escape from there three times, but he finally manages to leave the hospital only after three years.
“When I was eighteen years old, I believed that my world and the world of my parents could coexist harmoniously. I did my best to study well, I worked every afternoon, but at night I wanted to live my dream. Unfortunately, my parents did not share my belief in the peaceful coexistence of two such diametrically opposed worlds. One night I came home drunk, and the next morning I was rudely woken up by orderlies…”
Once finally free, Coelho travels around America and Europe, joins the hippie movement and tries drugs and other "attributes" from their lives.

Returning to Brazil, Paulo begins to write songs for many celebrities, and later, together with rock star Raul Seixas, create songs that revolutionize Brazilian rock music; some of them are hits to this day.
Soon, Coelho is accused of anti-government activities, arrested and sent to prison, where he is tortured. According to the writer, only the mention of a long stay in a psychiatric hospital saved him then. After being released from prison, Coelho continues to pursue the one goal he set for himself as a teenager: "to become a famous writer who is read and respected all over the world."
In 1982, during a trip to Europe, Coelho meets a mysterious person whom he calls "Jay" (J), who becomes his spiritual mentor and convinces him to follow the path of Santiago, the path of a medieval pilgrim to the tomb of the Apostle James in the city of Santiago de Compostela.
Coelho makes this pilgrimage in 1986. It was during it that he converted to Christianity and gained faith. He describes this experience in his first book, Diary of a Magician. When his second book "The Alchemist" is published, the writer receives not only world fame, but also the status of a modern classic.
Today Paulo Coelho is one of the most loved and read writers in the world. For his work, he received many different awards, including the Order of the Legion of Honor. In 2002, he became a member of the Brazilian Literary Academy, and in 2007, he became the UN Peace Ambassador. Paulo Coelho entered the Guinness Book of Records as the author of the most translated novel in the world ("The Alchemist").
In 1996, together with his wife Cristina, he founded the Paulo Coelho Institute, which helps underprivileged children and the elderly in Brazil. Since 2013, the writer has been a member of the Governing Board of Amnesty International.

In his spare time, Coelho loves to read, travel, play football, walk, often communicate with his fans on the Web, blog, play music and kyudo (meditative archery).
Paulo Coelho read a lot, studied philosophy, studied magic, alchemy and religions of all forms and directions, losing and finding again his faith. He went on his spiritual quest, striving to be different and feel different; but he realized that "extraordinary, unusual is in the way of ordinary, ordinary people." He says that we all carry within ourselves the power necessary to find our own destiny, accomplish the "Good Feat" and bring our "Personal Legend" to life. Paulo, of course, realizes his "Personal Legend", and the story of his life is proof of this.

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Paulo Coelho is one of the most famous modern authors. He is distinguished by a peculiar vision of the world and unshakable optimism. His books inspire millions of readers around the world, make them believe in miracles and give hope for a brighter future. Currently, the author has published more than 20 works, the most famous of which was "The Alchemist", which hit the list of world bestsellers. We invite you to recharge yourself with the incredible inner strength and thirst for life of this brilliant Brazilian writer by getting acquainted with his selected quotes about life, love and destiny.

To avoid the problems you have to face is to avoid the life you have to live.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine - it's deadly.

Appreciate things not for how much they cost, but for how much they mean.

Change is always scary. But no one will change your life for you. You understand what choice you have to make, but despite the fear, you move forward. This is the main rule of success.

If you are able to see the beautiful, it is only because you carry the beautiful within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees his own reflection.

Courageous and courageous people make their own destiny.

We give up on our dreams too easily, even though the Universe is always ready to help us make them come true.

No matter who you are or what you do, when you truly desire something, you will achieve it. After all, this desire was born in the soul of the Universe. This is your purpose on earth.

We wishful thinking and see the world not as it really is, but as we want to see it.

Solve. Change. Strive forward. Think. Accept calls. Get up and act. Refuse stereotypes. Achieve. Dream. Open. Believe. Stop. Listen to yourself. Grow. Win. look at life open eyes.

We always know which path is the best, but we follow the most familiar.

A child can teach an adult three things: to rejoice for no reason, to always find something to do, and to insist on your own.

Nothing in this world happens by chance.

Everyone experiences fear the moment they can change their destiny.

Be bold. Take risks. Nothing can replace experience.

Everyone wants to live on top of a mountain, but all happiness, all development happens while you are climbing there.

First shortest way leads to God through prayer. And the second, just as direct, is through joy.

Risk everything for the sake of your chance and reject everything that promises you peace and comfort.

People who strive only for success almost never achieve it, because it is not an end in itself, but a consequence.

The darkest hour is before dawn.

Sometimes you need to go around the whole world to understand that the treasure is buried at your own house.

It happens sometimes that life separates two people - just to show both how important they are to each other.

Sometimes you have to run to see who runs after you. Sometimes you have to speak softer to see who is really listening to you. Sometimes you have to take a step back to see who else is on your side. Sometimes you have to make the wrong decisions to see who's with you when things fall apart.

Man does the opposite. He hurries to become an adult, and then sighs about the past childhood. Spends health for money and immediately spends money to improve health. He thinks about the future with such impatience that he neglects the present, because of which he has neither a present nor a future. Lives as if he will never die, and dies as if he never lived.

Never give up on a dream! Dreams nourish our soul just as food nourishes the body. No matter how many times in our lives we have to go through a crash and see our hopes shattered, we must still continue to dream.

Feeling unhappy all the time is an unaffordable luxury.

We say the most important words in our lives silently.

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Paulo Coelho was born on August 24, 1947, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilian prose writer and poet. The author of books - "The Alchemist", "Brida", "The Book of the Warrior of Light", "Eleven Minutes", "The Winner Remains Alone", "Like a River" and others. parable stories. The total circulation in all languages ​​exceeds 300 million.

Quotes, aphorisms, sayings, phrases - Coelho Paulo

• The look shows the strength of the soul.

• Beauty is the greatest seducer of a man.

• Every morning is a chance to start life anew.

• I am writing for the child that dwells within us.

• My readers are, first of all, my supporters.

• We are all pilgrims wandering in search of the unknown.

• My whole life is directed by female energy, a woman.

• Once I found all the answers, all the questions changed.

• Courageous and courageous people make their own destiny.

• A person always has everything to fulfill his dream.

• When I became a celebrity, my biggest fear was losing my friends.

• There is always something to say, we are just afraid of the reaction to these words.

• Appreciate things not for how much they cost, but for how much they mean.

• Evil is not in what enters a person's mouth, but in what comes out of them.

• Until I got to know the woman, I had no idea what compassion was.

• In order not to lose inspiration, I need to make love with life.

• Change is always scary. But no one will change your life for you.

• I have never been afraid of death, because a thousand times I was in the balance from it.

• No one can lose anyone, because no one belongs to anyone.

• If you dare to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

• If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine - it's deadly.

• Perhaps God created the desert so that man would smile at the trees.

• Here it is, true freedom - to have what is most dear to you, but not to own it.

• Sometimes you need to go around the whole world to understand that the treasure is buried at your own house.

• If you are able to see the beautiful, it is only because you carry the beautiful within yourself.

• In the end, everything must be fine. If something is bad, then this is not the end.

• If I do exactly the things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.

• For me, going into politics means breaking down the wall of cultural prejudice that surrounds us.

• Life is always waiting for that hour when the future depends only on your decisive actions.

• Just because you've been discharged from an insane asylum doesn't mean you've been cured. You just became like everyone else.

• Each of us is responsible for the feelings we experience, and we have no right to blame the other for this.

• The worst thing I've come across crazy house, - that I can choose madness and live in peace without working.

• Love is the hard way. Difficult, because it will either lift you up to heaven or cast you down to hell.

• True love does not require reciprocity, and those who want to receive a reward for their love are wasting their time.

• If a person really wants something, then the whole Universe will help to ensure that his desire comes true.

• To live a full life, one must be in constant motion, and only then will one day be different from the next.

• It happens sometimes that life separates two people - just to show both how important they are to each other.

• In prison, I learned what hatred, cruelty and complete impotence are. It was a thousand times worse than an insane asylum.

• What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.

• To use the metaphor of a journey, life for me is like a caravan that has come out of nowhere and is heading to who knows where.

• A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always find something to do, and to insist on your own.

• Writing, for me, is like a pregnant woman who is about to give birth to a new child.

• We become blind to what we see every day. But every day is different, and every day is a miracle. The only question is to pay attention to this miracle.

• The fear of making a mistake is the door that locks us into the castle of mediocrity. If we overcome this fear, we will take an important step towards our freedom.

• You always need to know when the next stage of your life ends. The circle closes, the door closes, the chapter ends - no matter what you call it, it is important to leave in the past what already belongs to the past.

• Life is a spicy, dazzling game, it's a parachute jump, it's a risk, you fall, but you get back on your feet, it's what is called "getting out of your skin", it's longing and annoyance if you fail to make intended.

• I can make new friends and teach them to be crazy to make them wise. I will tell them not to live according to the textbooks of good manners, but to discover their own life, their own desires, adventures - and live.

• Sometimes you have to run to see who runs after you. Sometimes you have to speak softer to see who is really listening to you. Sometimes you have to take a step back to see who else is on your side. Sometimes you have to make the wrong decisions to see who's with you when things fall apart.

Biography of Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian writer and winner of many international literary awards, including the French Legion of Honor, the Swiss World Economic Forum (WEF) Crystal Award, and Italy's Grinzane Cavour.
His most famous novel, The Alchemist, has been translated into 80 foreign languages and is included in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most translated work by a living author. Published on different languages With about 300 million copies of thirty of his books, the novelist also became the leader in sales of works written in Portuguese in the entire history of the development of this language.
Coelho's plays, which contain wisdom and depth, irony and kindness, are in the repertoire of the best theaters in the world, and novels have been filmed. The number of published book editions of the author in Russian reached 15 million copies last year.

Childhood and youth of Paulo Coelho

The future bestselling author was born on August 24, 1947 in Rio de Janeiro in a wealthy family of an engineer. He studied at the school of the Catholic order of the Jesuits, where the main principle of pedagogy was the development individual abilities children, the education of ambition and the spirit of competition.
There, the teenager first showed artistic aspirations, a desire to write books, introversion and rejection of the traditional life path, who were negatively perceived by his relatives, placing him in a psychiatric hospital. He was treated for schizophrenia for three years, during which he escaped three times, and was returned to a medical facility.
Later, at the urging of his parents, he enrolled in law school, giving up his dream of becoming a writer. However, a year later, in the 1960s, Paulo dropped out of school, joined the hippies and went to travel around the country. Latin America, North Africa and Europe, used drugs. Coelho returned to his country after a few years, began to write lyrics, collaborating with famous artists, including rock stars Ellis Regina, Rita Lee, Raul Ceijas. Together they wrote about a hundred musical compositions, including acute social ones. In addition, Paulo became interested in the occult, mysticism, the ideas of the British black magician and Satanist Aleister Crowley. He was also a member of the Brazilian anarchist cell, worked in a theater troupe as an actor and director, and collaborated with publishing houses as a journalist.
In 1974, the ruling military authorities in the country accused the poet of anti-government activities and imprisoned him. The writer was saved by the circumstance of his stay in a psychiatric hospital - he was recognized as insane, unconvicted and released.

The beginning of the career of Paulo Coelho

In 1982, an event occurred that became a turning point in Coelho's life. In a cafe in Amsterdam, he met a representative of the Catholic monastic order RAM, who studies the word of God, its sacraments, transforms the Gospel into everyday life, changing it. He became Paulo's spiritual mentor.
Under his influence, in 1986, the poet made a pilgrimage - he traveled a path of 500 miles or about 800 kilometers to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela to the tomb of the holy great martyr of the Roman Catholic Church James and experienced enlightenment. After that, he decided to leave the lucrative career of a songwriter, to follow his dream - to write books, each of which would later receive recognition from the readership. Inspired by a trip to the holy places, Coelho described the Way of Santiago (the third center of Christianity after Rome and Jerusalem) and the amazing events taking place on it from ordinary people in the novel "Diary of a Magician" or "Pilgrimage". The first publication in 1987 of the book was not as successful as The Alchemist, but caused a manifold increase in the number of pilgrims on this Path.
In 1988, the writer published his most successful, phenomenal work in search of meaning and depth - "The Alchemist". Only 900 copies of the book were originally sold. The re-publication of the novel in 1994 in the United States made it the Brazilian prose writer's first worldwide best-seller and was the beginning of his worldwide recognition. Coelho's next well-received work is Brida. Then, as a rule, Paulo wrote one novel every 2 years. Among his works are “On the banks of the Rio Piedra, I sat down and cried”, “The Fifth Mountain”, “Veronica decides to die”, “Eleven minutes”, “The winner remains alone”. In total, about 175 million novelist books have been sold in over 170 countries. Three of them - "Pilgrimage", "Valkyries" and "Aleph" - are autobiographical.
Nearly all of the books by one of the most important authors on the planet have become major events and emotional discussions in the literary community. However, it should be said that some critics give a low rating or do not accept Coelho's work at all. Among them are Russian TV presenter Avdotya Smirnova, writer Bayan Shiryanov, Dmitry Bykov. In 2011, the Iranian authorities banned the publication and sale of the works of the Brazilian novelist in the country.

Activities of Paulo Coelho

The writer is a staunch defender of human rights. In 1996, he founded the Institute of his name, which provides support to Brazilians in violation of their legitimate interests. The novelist, once recognized as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, has been a member of its Governing Board since 2013, as well as the Schwab Foundation for the Promotion of Social Entrepreneurship.
At the age of 54, Coelho was elected a member of the Brazilian Literary Academy ABL (Academia Brasileira de Letras), and in 2007 - UN Peace Ambassador.

Paulo Coelho's personal life

The writer has always been popular with women, since young age. His first wife was Vera Richteron, a Yugoslav from Belgrade. She was 11 years older than him. But the marriage was not durable, like many of the author's relationships at that time. At the age of 25, he met a girl named Adalgisa Eliana Ríos de Magalhaes (Gisa for short). She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture. Soon they began to live together and then got married. This relationship came at the time of the hippies and the legal use of soft drugs. But they soon exhausted themselves. Soon he married 19-year-old Cecile McDowell, who was the daughter of the owner of a tuberculosis clinic. But this marriage collapsed after three years.
Now Coelho is married for the fourth time. In the early 80s, he met the artist Kristina Oitisika. It was she who was able to make the writer believe in himself and organized a trip for him, during which he met Jean. Now Paulo lives with his wife between Europe and Brazil. The writer called Jan van Eyck's painting "Portrait of the Arnolfini" his favorite work of art (noting that Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, in his opinion, was clearly overestimated), best book considers "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller.

Paulo Coelho today

According to news agencies, filming based on the novel "The Alchemist" is planned for 2016. The film will be directed by Laurence Fishburne and starring Idris Elba as the shepherd Santiago.
Coelho's works are read in almost all countries of the world. Many celebrities cite The Alchemist as their favorite novel. Among the fans of his work are Bill Clinton, Will Smith, Pharrell Williams, Madonna and many others.
The writer and thinker, sometimes called the "Renaissance man", who gave the world a liberated, intelligent, challenging established traditions and orders of the individual. In his own opinion, the prose writer, his merit lies in the fact that on the pages of his stories, parables, the complex seems simple.

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1. If you were discharged from a lunatic asylum, this does not mean that you have been cured. You just became like everyone else.

2. "I knew this news from childhood: one country threatens another, someone has betrayed someone, the economy is in decline, Israel and Palestine have not come to an agreement in the past fifty years, another explosion, another hurricane left thousands homeless people."

3. When you really want something, the whole Universe will contribute to making your wish come true.

4. We all need a little madness (c)

5. What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.

6. If I am a part of your Destiny, someday you will return to me.

7. The happier people can be, the more unhappy they become.

8. When one day is similar to another, people stop noticing the good things that happen to them every day after sunrise.

9. All women are sure that a man does not need anything but these eleven minutes of pure sex, and he pays a lot of money for them. But this is not so: a man, in essence, is no different from a woman: he also needs to meet someone and find the meaning of life.

10. Sometimes it is easier to get an answer by silence than by asking questions.

11.
- I love you because...
"You don't have to say anything," the girl interrupted him. - They love because they love. Love does not recognize arguments.

12. I began to understand that the lack of meaning in life is only my fault.

13. Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

14. Stop constantly thinking that you are disturbing everyone! If someone does not like it, he will complain. And if he doesn't have the courage to complain, that's his problem.

15. Love is a drug. At first, there is euphoria, lightness, a feeling of complete dissolution. You want more the next day. You haven't had time to get involved yet, but while you like the feeling, you're sure you can do without them. You think about your favorite being for 2 minutes and forget about it for 3 hours. But gradually you get used to it and get completely addicted. And then, you think about it for 3 hours and forget for two minutes.

16. When you teach someone something, you discover something new for yourself.

17. The fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.

18. A lover makes love all the time, even when he is not making love.

19. People do not attach importance to simple things, and therefore began to write philosophical treatises.

20. Whenever you want to achieve something, look both ways, pull yourself together and try to understand exactly what you need. You can't aim for a goal with your eyes closed.

21. Life consists of simple things.

22. If love changes a person quickly, then despair - even faster.

23. The Universe always helps us to achieve our dreams, no matter how stupid they may be. For these are our dreams, and only we know what it cost to dream them.

24. You can know yourself only after you open the boundaries of your own capabilities.

25. The loss of those with whom I fell in love hurt my soul before. Now I am convinced: no one can lose anyone, because no one belongs to anyone.

26. The risk of one adventure is worth more than a thousand days of well-being and comfort.

28. ... where we are expected, we always find ourselves right on time.

29. Men threaten, scream, they can beat, but without exception, everyone goes crazy with fear of a woman. Maybe not in front of the one who was taken as a wife, but there will certainly be one who will subjugate them and force them to fulfill all their whims. Sometimes it's the mother.

30. Sometimes you have to die to start living.

31. ... people mostly use sex as a drug - to escape from reality, forget about their problems, relax.

32. Life is sometimes surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door - and an avalanche falls on him.

34. True love is when you give yourself everything without a trace.

35. True love does not require reciprocity, and one who wants to receive a reward for his love is wasting his time.

36. A person's life is short or long, depending on how he lives it.

37. And what is a "teacher"? I will answer you, this is not the one who teaches anything, but the one who encourages the student to bring out the best that is in him in order to reveal what he already knows.

38. All peoples have such a saying: "Out of sight - out of mind." I say that there is nothing more false in the world. The farther from the eyes, the closer to the heart. Being in exile in a foreign land, we lovingly cherish in memory any little thing that reminds us of our homeland. Yearning in separation from those we love, in every passer-by on the street we see dear features.

39. Remember: you always need to know exactly what you want.

40. Constantly feeling unhappy is an unaffordable luxury.

41. A look shows the strength of the soul

42. "... a person has everything to fulfill his dream ..."

43. A lover will never hurt a loved one; each of us is responsible for the feelings we experience, and we have no right to blame the other for this.

44. The loss of those with whom I fell in love hurt my soul before. Now I am convinced: no one can lose anyone, because no one belongs to anyone.

45. Here it is, true freedom - to possess what is dearest to you, but not to own it.

46. ​​Perhaps God created the desert so that man would smile at the trees.

47. Sex is the art of curbing the unbridled.

48. There are people who were born into the world to go through life alone, this is not bad and not good, this is life.

49. People always destroy what they love the most.

50. What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.

51. Even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day ..

52. The deepest, most sincere desire is the desire to be close to someone

53. Life attracts life

54. It always happens in the movies - at the very last moment, when a woman is ready to board a plane, a man appears in complete despair and, under the ironically sympathetic glances of airline employees, grabs her in an armful, kisses her and returns her to her world. The inscription "The End" appears, and the audience disperses, confident that this couple will continue to be unfailingly happy from now on. "The movies never show what happened next," she said to console herself. And then - marriage, kitchen, children, sex by duty, even if it is marital, but increasingly rare, and here is the first found note from his mistress, and the desire to throw a scandal, and then - promises that this will never happen again, then the second note (already from another woman), and again the scandal and the threat of divorce, but this time the husband no longer promises anything with such certainty, but only says that he loves her. The third note (from the third woman), and after it they usually prefer to remain silent, to pretend that nothing is happening, because now the husband will begin to say that he no longer loves her and she can go in all four directions. There is nothing like that in the cinema show. The film ends before another world begins. So it's better not to think.

55.
"Giving yourself is not the same as selling.
And next to sleep - does not mean to sleep.
Not to take revenge does not mean to forgive everything.
And to be smitten does not mean not to love.
Not repeating does not mean not understanding.
Not speaking is not the same as not knowing.
Not to see is not to look.
And not to scream - does not mean not to burn.
Standing does not mean not flying.
And to be silent does not mean to die.
And letting go doesn't mean letting go."

56. Here it is, the advantage of tiny towns - without any effort on your part, everyone knows everything about you

57. Nothing in this world happens by chance.

58. Maybe Good and Evil have one and the same face. It all depends on when they meet on the path of each of us.

59. Light is unstable, the wind extinguishes it, lightning rekindles it, it will never be right here, shining like the sun - and yet it is worth fighting for

60. Only one thing makes the fulfillment of a dream impossible - this is the fear of failure.

61. Every person on earth, whatever he does, plays a major role in the history of the world. And usually they don't even know about it.

62. Love cannot be measured like the length of a road or the height of a building.

63. First of all, do not believe in promises. And there are so many of them in the world - they promise wealth, salvation of the soul, love to the grave. There are people who consider themselves entitled to promise anything. There are others - they agree to believe in any promises, if only they would guarantee them a different, better fate. You treat them. Those who promise and do not keep promises eventually become powerless and worthless. And the same happens to those gullible who grasp at the promise

64. Dreams will not come true by themselves.

65. Chance is not the only one, life will surely provide one more.

66. To love is to share the world with someone else.

67. "Never give up on your dreams," Melchizedek told him. "Follow the signs."

68. After all, everyone knows exactly how to live in the world. For some reason, no one can manage their own life.

70. He who loves must master the art of losing and finding.

71. If the soul manages to connect, unite with the mind, great changes will be within its power.

72. "People want to change everything and at the same time want everything to remain the same, such as before."

73. People like to look better than they really are..

74. Life is always waiting for that hour when the future depends only on your decisive actions.

75. One should not think that someone can belong to someone.

76. From the very beginning early childhood I dreamed that the desert would give me a gift that had never happened before in my life. And now I got it - it's you.

77. I hug you - it means that there is no threat from you, I'm not afraid to let you get very close - it means that I feel good, calm, and next to me is someone who understands me.

78. Evil is not in what enters a person's mouth, but in what comes out of them.

79. I love you because the whole Universe contributed to our meeting.

80. Everyone knows how to love, because they receive this gift at birth

81. Madness is the inability to communicate one's perception to others.

82. When a boss humiliates his subordinate or husband - wife, then this is either just cowardice, or an attempt to take revenge on life. These people do not dare to look deep into their souls and therefore they will never know where the desire to release a wild predatory beast comes from, and they will not understand that sex, pain, love put a person on the brink of being human.

83. And only those who have been on this edge know life. Everything else is just a pastime, a repetition of the same task. Without approaching the edge, without looking into the abyss, a person will grow old and die, never knowing what he did in this world.

84. Why did this line catch my eye right now, when there are only a few minutes left to live?

85. The only way to make the right decision is to know which decision is wrong.

86. There is a great difference between intention and action.

87. Crazy - like children, they leave only after their desires are fulfilled.

88. If you believe in victory, you will win, because victory will believe in you.

89. There are people who were born into the world to go through life alone, this is not bad and not good, this is life.

90. ... a dream is a very convenient thing, because we are not at all obliged to fulfill what we dream about.

91. when fate gives too generously, there is always a well in which our dreams will drown

92. People never believe what they are told, they have to figure everything out on their own.

93. This is always the case with young people: they set their own limits, not wondering if the body can withstand it. And the body always endures.

94. If you want to know something - plunge into it with your head.

95. "... "true I" ...- This is what you are, and not what was done to you ..."

96. If you ask if I feel good with you, I will answer: yes. But if you ask if I can live without you, I will answer the same.

97.
- Do you love me?
- More than yesterday, less than tomorrow.

98. If a man whom we, in fact, hardly know, calls us, says a few words, without saying anything special, without hinting at anything, but in this way giving us the attention that we so rarely receive, then we are quite capable of falling in love into him and be in bed with him that same night. Yes, we are like that, and there is nothing like that: in the nature of a woman, it is easy to open up towards

Love is able to mold any person out of us, transforming the essence and character beyond recognition.

Every person has access to the Universe with its infinity and immensity. So, any wish will come true, if you really want it. Such is the true and secret destiny of man on Mother Earth. - Paulo Coelho

Everything will always be excellent or just good. When it's bad, better times will soon come, when the good will prevail over the bad.

The most significant meetings always take place at the turn of events, when the quality of things is reborn and fateful decisions can lead to no return. V extreme situation the brain automatically chooses the right path.

P. Coelho Everyone is dissatisfied with his life, but he is not able to improve his fate as it should be. The resemblance to a gypsy is clear - she predicts dreams masterfully, but the fortuneteller does not have the courage, strength, talent and skill to turn them into reality.

Love is a thorny road. Now her path drags slowly up to heaven, then it swiftly flies along a winding path into the abyss to hell.

There is no fulfilling life without risk. Readiness for surprises gives impetus to accomplishments and actions, then we will get the desired result from life.

The thought is material. A person wants strongly - the Universe and the Cosmos will fulfill dreams.

Continuation beautiful quotes P. Coelho read on the pages:

The best way to weaken the enemy is to convince him that you are giving in to him and agreeing with his intentions.

The most profound changes - both in the human soul and in the life of society - occur in a very short time. At the moment when we least expect it, life challenges us to test our courage and our desire for change; and does not allow us to pretend that nothing is happening, or excuse ourselves by saying that we are not ready yet. The call must be answered immediately.

If you are able to see the beautiful, it is only because you carry the beautiful within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees his own reflection.

You always need to know when the next stage of your life ends. The circle closes, the door closes, the chapter ends - no matter what you call it, it is important to leave in the past what already belongs to the past ...

A person must choose, not accept his fate.

The path that is determined by Your Destiny is as difficult as any other, with the only difference being that your heart will be there.

A madman is one who lives in his own special world.

When God wants to drive a person crazy, he begins to fulfill all his desires.

The sages have long understood that our world is created in the image and likeness of paradise. The very existence of this world is a guarantee that there is another, more perfect one. Alchemist

In sex, it is hard for one to deceive the other, because there everyone shows himself as he is.

The loss of those I fell in love with hurt my soul before. Now I am convinced: no one can lose anyone, because no one belongs to anyone.

A person always has everything to fulfill his dream.

No one lights a candle to keep it outside the door, because the light then exists to shine, to open people's eyes, to show what miracles are around.

It is good to give when asked, but it is a hundred times better to entrust everything to the one who did not ask for anything.

In order to start a spiritual life, one does not need to go to seminary, fast, be a teetotaler, and shun women. It is enough to believe in God and accept Him.

Every person on earth, no matter what he does, plays a major role in the history of the world. And usually they don't even know about it.

If I do exactly the things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.

There is always something incomplete in desire. For, when fulfilled, it ceases to be a desire.

Instead of cursing where you fell, you should try to find out what made you fall in the first place.

There are defeats. And no one in the world is immune from them, moreover, no one will escape them. Therefore, it is better to fight for the fulfillment of your dream and lose several battles in this war than to be defeated and at the same time not even know what you fought for.

Yes, happiness sometimes descends to us as grace, but much more often it is victory and overcoming.

To live a full life, one must be in constant motion, and only then will one day be different from the next.

Nothing changes with death ... Others took the place of those who were out of action, and life went on.

A person does not understand that, having realized the inevitability of death, he will be able to dare more, will be able to go further in his daily conquests - for if Death is inevitable, then he has nothing to lose.

It is in him, in the present, that the whole secret is. If you give it the attention it deserves, you can improve it. And if you improve your current situation, you will make the future favorable as well. Do not worry about the future, live in the present, and let your every day pass as commanded by the Law. Believe that the Almighty takes care of his children. Every day carries a particle of eternity.

The moment we enter the path we have chosen, all other paths disappear.

Not a single heart suffers when it goes in search of its dream, because every moment of this search is a meeting with God and Eternity.

The fear of making a mistake is the door that locks us into the castle of mediocrity. If we overcome this fear, we will take an important step towards our freedom.

Most primitive civilizations have a custom of burying their dead in the fetal position. “He will be born again, in another life, and we must put him in the same position in which he came into this world,” they say. For these civilizations, death was just another step on the universal ladder. Gradually the world lost its quiet acceptance of death. But no matter what we think, or what we do, or what we believe: each of us will die one day. Better to do what the old Yaqui Indians did: treat death as a consultant. Always ask, "What am I going to do before I die?"

Money brings ... no, not happiness, but money.

“Incompatibility is not to show the lack of elitism” (c)

Sometimes you need to go around the whole world to understand that the treasure is buried at your own house.

Feeling unhappy all the time is an unaffordable luxury.

Sex is the art of harnessing the unbridled.

"The earth produces enough to satisfy wants, but not enough to satisfy greed."

What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.

The fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And not a single heart suffers when it goes in search of its dreams, because every moment of this search is a meeting with God and with Eternity.

True love does not require reciprocity, and those who want to receive a reward for their love are wasting their time.

Only one thing makes the fulfillment of a dream impossible, and that is the fear of failure.

If things aren't going well, there are only two explanations: either your perseverance is being tested, or you need to change direction. In order to discover which of these explanations is correct - especially since they are opposite - use silence and prayer. Gradually things will become surprisingly clean until you have enough power to choose.

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

It is necessary to take risks. The miracle of life can only be fully realized when we are prepared for the unexpected to happen.

A person allows himself the luxury of being crazy only when the conditions for this are created for him.

Everything will happen as it is written by God… Troubles happen in our life, we cannot prevent them. But they happen for a reason. - For what reason? “That is a question we cannot answer before or during adversity. Only after overcoming them, we understand why they were needed.

To live life to the fullest, one must be in constant motion, and only then will one day be different from another.

“I live not in the past and not in the future, but now, and only the present minute interests me. If you could always stay in the present, you would be the happiest of mortals... Life would then be an eternal and never-ending holiday, because there would be nothing in it but the present moment.”

There is no escape from misfortune. We can find a reason, blame other people, imagine what our life would be like if there were no trouble. But all this does not matter: the misfortune has already happened. From now on, we must forget the fear that it caused in us and begin a rebirth.

Each of us is responsible for the feelings we experience, and we have no right to blame the other for this.

Every day God sends us - along with the sun - the opportunity to change everything that makes us unhappy. And every day we try to pretend that we do not notice this possibility, that it does not exist at all, that today is in everything like yesterday and indistinguishable from tomorrow. But those who look closely at their day will find this magical moment.

Once I found all the answers, all the questions changed.

Sometimes it is easier to get an answer by silence than by asking questions.

Why on earth did it suddenly occur to me to save the whole world? After all, I still can hardly save myself.

It is in fairy tales that you kiss a toad and it becomes a handsome prince. in life it's the other way around - you kiss the prince and he becomes a disgusting toad.

This is a strange thing, LOVE ... Yesterday you didn’t know a person yet ... and today you can’t live a day without him ... you think about him ... you are waiting for when you can say a few words to him, or write something ... and so day after day ... But you have never even seen this person once ... You just exchanged photos, gave some advice ... and then ... and then you suddenly realized that ... you need this person more than anything ... even more than you need yourself ... You probably remember the legend that at one time the Gods divided people into two halves ... and for a person to be happy, he must find his half ... Here is the very case ... You are the very half that I was looking for ... I searched for a long time ... and found … I LOVE YOU… Unfortunately, I can’t be around now… and it oppresses me no less than you… And yet imagine our first meeting… to this melody… standing on the bridge… holding hands… looking into each other’s eyes… just stand, say nothing ... and so everything is clear ...

Dreams are the language in which the Lord speaks to us. When it is one of the languages ​​of the world, I can translate from it. But if the Lord speaks to you in the language of your soul, he will be intelligible to you alone.

When a person follows the path of his destiny, he often has to change direction. Sometimes external circumstances are stronger, and he has to give in. All this is part of the lesson.

Life is very fast paced; in an instant we fall from heaven into the very underworld.

The duel of Good and Evil takes place every second in the heart of every person, for the heart is the battlefield where angels and demons fight

Everything has a price, but price is always relative. When we follow our dreams, we can give the impression to others that we are miserable and unlucky. But it doesn't matter what others think. Joy in our heart is important.

Change happens only when we go against what we are accustomed to.

Madness is the inability to communicate one's perception to others.

Two deaths will not happen... Is it all the same: tomorrow it will happen or on any other day? Every day is good to be lived or to be the last.

The world is a joint dream of the gods.

I would like to have a person next to me, in whose presence my heart would beat evenly and evenly, a person next to whom I would be calm, because I would not be afraid to lose him the next day. And time would then flow more slowly, and we could just be silent, knowing that we still have a whole life ahead of us to talk ...

To die following Your Destiny is much better than to accept death, like thousands of people who do not even suspect the existence of the Way.

The fear of making a mistake is the door that locks us into the castle of mediocrity. If we overcome this fear, we will take an important step towards our freedom.

Everything always turns out well. If things aren't going well, it's because you haven't reached the end yet.

There are times in life when God requires us to obey. But sometimes He calls us to struggle to test our will. This is how He makes us feel His love.

Being consistent means always wearing one sock.

“There is only one way to comprehend… Act. The sages have long understood that our world is created in the image and likeness of paradise. The very existence of this world is a guarantee that there is another, more perfect one. The Almighty created it so that people could see the spiritual through the visible and marvel at the wonders of their own wisdom. This is what I call Action.”

Waiting is painful. Forgetting hurts. But the worst of suffering is not knowing what decision to make.

In our time, people have lost interest in life: they do not get bored, do not cry, they just wait for time to pass. They have given up the struggle, and life has given up on them. This threatens you too: act, boldly go forward, but do not give up on life.

Every day, every hour of our lives is a moment of the Glorious Battle. Gradually, we will learn to joyfully perceive and enjoy every moment of life.

Fear ends where the inevitable begins.

If your old life oppresses you, forget about it as soon as possible ... Come up with a new story of your life and believe in it. Remember only your victories, and this will help you achieve what you want.

To live life and achieve the realization of one's destiny means to go through a number of stages, the meaning of which is often beyond our understanding.

Both a man and a woman are absolutely vulnerable to the power of sex, because there pleasure and fear are equally important.

To live a real life, you need to take risks.

When we want something, we make a choice and pay a price. To follow your dreams, you have to pay a price. This may require us to leave old habits, it may create problems for us, and bring disappointment. But, no matter how high the price, it is never as high as we pay for not being able to live our personal destiny.

They have given up the struggle, and life has given up on them.

Some events occur in our lives in order to return us to the true path of Destiny. Others are needed in order for us to apply our knowledge in life. And some events are meant to teach us.

Nothing in the world is completely wrong. Even a broken clock shows the exact time twice a day.

Do you see the Fifth Mountain? Elijah asked. – From whichever side you look at it, it will seem different, although it is still the same mountain. This is how everything that surrounds us is: they are different faces of the same God.

Rich people don't throw money down the drain - only poor people behave like that.

Man is a fragile creature, and therefore he always tries to hide from himself the great immutability of death. He is unaware that it is she who encourages him to create all the best that is in life.

When we begin to think about what decision to make, as a rule, we do nothing at all. Because it takes much more courage to act with a premeditated intention than to act spontaneously...

No one owns anything, everything in the world is ghostly and unsteady - and this also applies to wealth and spiritual values. A person who has happened to lose something that, as he thought, will be his forever (and this happened to me often), eventually learns that nothing belongs to him.

If you're still alive, it's because you haven't arrived at the place you need to go to.

They love because they love. Love does not recognize arguments.

It is dangerous to try to be like everyone else: it causes neurosis, psychosis, paranoia. It is dangerous to want to be like everyone else, because it means raping nature, going against the laws of God, who in all the forests and groves of the world has not created even two identical leaves.

We always know which path is the best, but we follow the most familiar.

Once upon a time, extraordinary people lived on earth. They had four arms, four legs, two heads. They were wonderful! It was a man and a woman merged into one. In the entire universe there was no being more beautiful and stronger.