The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

“In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.”

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

Although the boy had developed a superstition that each time he opened the book he would learn something important, he decided it was an unnecessary burden.

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