Message from 'The Alchemist'
"People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early,too. But that's the way it is."
"If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it."
"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current for life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because its all written there.'
"Before a dream is realized, the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.It does this not because it is evil, but o that we can in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream.That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested. It said that the darkest hour of the night came first before the dawn."
"We, people's hearts, seldom say much about those treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later, we simply let life proceed, in its own direction, towards its own fate. But, unfortunately, very few follow the path laid out for them - the path to their demises, and the happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns indeed to be a threatening place."
"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our professions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understood that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."
"Because I don't live n 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 is the moment we're living right now."
"My dream helps me face all these days that are the same.I'm afraid that if my dream is realized,I'll have no reason to go on living."
"The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being."
"I'm like everyone else- I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does. If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world."
"When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives everyday that the sun rises."
"People say strange things. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them.But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you didn't know how to continue the conversation."
"Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force."
This book talks about the journey of a shepherd boy and it gives us valuable life lessons through his journey, his thoughts , the beliefs he develops in the journey.It is based on the belief of destiny and a supernatural power. Even if you are someone who does not believe in God, you will still have valuable insights from the book.
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