- Author: Paulo Coelho
- Full Title: The Alchemist
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Highlights
- It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, (Location 169)
- Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. (Location 219)
- “What’s the world’s greatest lie?” the boy asked, completely surprised. “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.” “That’s never happened to me,” the boy (Location 243)
- day he appeared: for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. (Location 345)
- he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. (Location 502)
- “When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it,” (Location 684)
- He still had some doubts about the decision he had made. But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. (Location 745)
- When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. (Location 746)
- “You must understand that 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.” (Location 1311)
- “If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” (Location 1541)