Paulo Coelho Quotes

If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.

We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why I say you might as well practice with each moment.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

The average-guy routine works only so much, and then people begin to want something more.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.