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Paulo Coelho Biography

Paulo Coelho de Souza (/ˈkwɛljuː, kuˈɛl-, -joʊ/; Portuguese: [ˈpawlu kuˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and the recipient of numerous international awards. He is best known for his widely translated novel The Alchemist. He is the writer with the highest number of social media followers reaching over 29.5 million fans through his Facebook page and 15.6 million followers on Twitter . A keen user of electronic media, in 2014 he uploaded his personal papers online to create a virtual Paulo Coelho Foundation.

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Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

Accepted, Admired, Effort, Elegance

You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.

Belong, Dream, Dreams, Explain, I Hate You, Needs

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

Life, Nasty, Saying, Talking

God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.

Follow, God, Omen, Omens, Path, Prepared

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

Desire, Expectations, Forward, Goes On

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

Disappointment, Existence, Life, Love, Take, Times

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

Life, Inspiration, Relaxation, State, Complete, Knows

Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves.

Beautiful, Insist, Inspiration, Life, Mote, Mountains

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [. . . ] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

Continue, Dream, Follow, Heart, People

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion.

Chooses, Decision, Inspiration, Mysteries, Responsibility, Shift

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

Past, What Matters, Doors, Moments, Life, Time

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

World, Language, Ifs, Learn, Understand

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

Aware, Laugh, Laughing, Steps, Suffering, Walk

The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad.

Life, Inspiration, Warrior, Quite, Mad

Perhaps they needn't even believe - it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.

Angel, Believe, Enough, Return

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.

Gives, Giving, Life, Living, Reason, Want

I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.

Inspirational, Life, Learning, Certainty, Birthright, Privileged

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

Forward, Inspiration, Life, Turning, Way

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

Firsts, God, Joy, Prayer, Remember

Dream and don't ask too many questions, or fear will overcome your feelings.

Dream, Fear, Feelings, Overcoming, Questions

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