3,188 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.