The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

“Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you.

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.

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

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’ve moved toward that dream.

“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 just before the dawn.

“When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”

The boy and his heart had become friends,

“Your eyes show the strength of your soul,”

“It’s a man who understands nature and the world.

“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.”

bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material plane.”

“When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there’s no need at all to understand what’s happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind.

when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.

“Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.”

‘Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.’”

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”

And above all for his having met a woman of the desert who had told him that love would never keep a man from his Personal Legend.