The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

by Paulo Coelho

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

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that butterflies were a good omen.

“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. You’ll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.”

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

“Don’t think about what you’ve left behind,”

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

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