More quotes by Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"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."
"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."