The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

by Paulo Coelho

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

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry.

every day was the same, and 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.

Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children.

the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

“That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”