Paulo Coelho Quotes

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

I am not a person who I am thinking about what I achieved or what I don't achieve. I am a person who try to enjoy the moment. That's what I do.

Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

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

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .

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

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.