The Alchemist

Some words of wisdom from my all-time favorite and inspirational book, The Alchemist:

* To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation
* No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the word. And normally he doesn't know it.
* When you are loved, you can do anything in creation
* The world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse
* When we love, we always strive to become better than we are
* Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
* People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them
* The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself
* Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him
* When you are in love, things make even more sense
* Making a decision is only the beginning of things.
* If you can concentrate always on the present... Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.
* It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting
* The world was huge and inexhaustible
* It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary
* Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
* It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
* When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it
* I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does...
* This isn't a strange place; it is a new one.
* He was learning a lot of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before.
* I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.
* Every blessing ignored becomes a curse
* It's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment
* He tried to deal with the concept of love as distinct from possession, and couldn't separate them
* When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream
* It's no what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
* Love never keeps a man from pursuing his dreams
* One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
* Men dream more about coming home than about leaving
* There is only one way to learn. It's through action
* It is said that "the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn."
* When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed
* "Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."