Paulo Coelho Quotes

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Life's too short.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

Press on!--For in the grave there is no work And no device--Press on! while yet ye may!

We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

You can make more money - you can buy a new body - but you can't buy time. If you are wasting it, make different choices. Don't wait.

There's always another idea round the corner that I want to do. So while I can, it's important to do them, because there will come a time when I can't.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.