More quotes by Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say."
"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."
"When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."
"No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it."