Quotes from Paulo Coelho

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present.

My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

You say they create their own reality, said Veronika, but what is reality?

I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it.

Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.