The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

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

“But what if I can’t?” “Then you’ll die in the midst of trying to realize your Personal Legend. That’s a lot better than dying like millions of other people, who never even knew what their Personal Legends were.

“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 on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”