The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

by Paulo Coelho

“In order to find the treasure, you will have to follow the omens. God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you.”

I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”

intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there. “Maktub,”

“Because I don’t live in 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 will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.”

But this was the present moment—the party the camel driver had mentioned—and he wanted to live it as he did the lessons of his past and his dreams of the future.

God revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures.

things have to be transmitted this way because they were made up from the pure life, and this kind of life cannot be captured in pictures or words.

It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world.

Those who don’t return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become a part of everything . . . they become the Soul of the World.

am learning the Language of the World, and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me . . . even the flight of the hawks,”

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.”

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world. Everything depended on one word: “Maktub.”

“It’s not what enters men’s mouths that’s evil,” said the alchemist. “It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.”

God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. That’s what I mean by action.”

It said that all people who are happy have God within them.

It’s true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend,