The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

by Paulo Coelho

It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

when you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor.

“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”

“Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . . . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.