Paulo Coehlo
The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub (1994), the compilation of texts Phrases (1995), The Fifth Mountain (1996), Manual of a Warrior of Light (1997), Veronika decides to die (1998), The Devil and Miss Prym (2000), the compilation of traditional tales in Stories for parents, children and grandchildren (2001), Eleven Minutes (2003), The Zahir (2005), The Witch of Portobello (2006) and Winner Stands Alone (to be released in 2009). During the months of March, April, May and June 2006, Paulo Coelho traveled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella in 1986. He also held surprise book signings - announced one day in advance - in some cities along the way, to have a chance to meet his readers. In ninety days of pilgrimage the author traveled around the globe and took the famous Transiberrian train that took him to Vladivostok. During this experience Paulo Coelho launched his blog Walking the Path - The Pilgrimage in order to share with his readers his impressions. Since this first blog Paulo Coelho has expanded his presence in the internet with his daily blogs in Wordpress, Myspace & Facebook. He is equally present in media sharing sites such as Youtube and Flickr, offering on a regular basis not only texts but also videos and pictures to his readers. From this intensive interest and use of the Internet sprang his bold new project: The Experimental Witch where he invites his readers to adapt to the screen his book The Witch of Portobello. Indeed Paulo Coelho is a firm believer of Internet as a new media and is the first Best-selling author to actively support online free distribution of his work.
“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.”
“fate is strange..almost no one i know married the first love of their lives.but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn’t experience all that they might have.."- by the river piedra i sat down and wept”
“it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear”
“It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now.”
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.Paulo Coehlo”
“If you never take a risk, you will neverknow what changes you need to make.”
“A man only has a soul to be won or lost.”
“I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.”
“Tuhan maha kuasa. Kalau Dia membatasi diri-Nya hanya dengan melakukan apa-apa yang baik, Dia tidak bisa disebut Maha Kuasa; itu berarti Dia hanya menguasai satu bagian alam semesta, dan ada orang lain yang lebih berkuasa daripada-Nya, yang mengawasi dan menilai tindakan-tindakan-Nya.”
“Que son cinco minutos de agonia, a cambio de una eternidad en silencio.”
“Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”
“It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”
“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.”
“In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.”
“Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.”
“Covek ne voli zato sto zeli da ucini dobro, ili da pomogne, ili da zastiti nekoga. Ako tako postupamo, posmatramo svog bliznjeg kao puki objekat, a sami sebe dozivljavamo kao velikodusne i mudre osobe. To nema nikakve veze s ljubavlju. Voleti znaci ostvariti zajednistvo s drugim i otkriti u njemu bozansku iskru.”
“A mladic je dugo ostao sjedeci pored bunara, shvatajuci da mu je jednog dana vetar zapuhnuo lice mirisom te zene i da ju je voleo jos pre nego sto je saznao da ona postoji i da ce ga ta ljuba nadahnuti da pronadje sva blaga ovoga sveta.”