The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

‘The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.’”

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees, he thought.

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

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

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