More quotes by Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer."
"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 simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."