The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

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

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

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.

“Don’t forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

“I’m alive,” he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one night, with no fires and no moon. “When I’m eating, that’s all I think about. If I’m on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight, it will be just as good a day to die as any other.