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."
"Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."
"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."
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."