More quotes by Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it."
"Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present"."
"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, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."
"You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say."