The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket’s weight and warmth.

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting,

If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

“If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it.”

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