November 23, 2010
The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
The secret to life: to fall seven times and get up eight.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.
The worlds greatest lie: at some point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you get it
If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
He had to chose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have...
The secret to happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, AND never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
"I'm like everyone else- I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does."
Sometimes there us just no way to hold back the river.
Intuition is the sudden immersion into the universal current of life
If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert and that there are stars in the heavens. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we are living right now.
The secret of the future is here in the present. A known future is only revealed so as to be altered in any case.
It is not what enters our mouths that is evil. It's what comes out of our mouth that is.
Life attracts life.
Love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love... The love that speaks the Language of the World.
There is only one way to learn. Through Action.
All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand and you see in it all the marvels of creation (evolution).
Most people see the world as a threatening place. As a result, the world turns out to be a threatening place.
"Why don't peoples hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams?". "Because that's what makes a heart suffer the most, and hearts don't like to suffer."
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 so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we move toward the dream. That's the point at which most people give up.
Every search begins with beginners luck. And every search ends with the victor being severely tested.
When you possess great treasures within you, and you try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
When something evolves, everything around that thing evolves too.
Anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing will never discover his own.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
That's what Alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
No matter what he does, every person in earth plays a central role in the history if the world.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.
The worlds greatest lie: at some point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you get it
If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
He had to chose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have...
The secret to happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, AND never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
"I'm like everyone else- I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does."
Sometimes there us just no way to hold back the river.
Intuition is the sudden immersion into the universal current of life
If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert and that there are stars in the heavens. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we are living right now.
The secret of the future is here in the present. A known future is only revealed so as to be altered in any case.
It is not what enters our mouths that is evil. It's what comes out of our mouth that is.
Life attracts life.
Love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love... The love that speaks the Language of the World.
There is only one way to learn. Through Action.
All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand and you see in it all the marvels of creation (evolution).
Most people see the world as a threatening place. As a result, the world turns out to be a threatening place.
"Why don't peoples hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams?". "Because that's what makes a heart suffer the most, and hearts don't like to suffer."
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 so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we move toward the dream. That's the point at which most people give up.
Every search begins with beginners luck. And every search ends with the victor being severely tested.
When you possess great treasures within you, and you try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
When something evolves, everything around that thing evolves too.
Anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing will never discover his own.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
That's what Alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
No matter what he does, every person in earth plays a central role in the history if the world.