The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

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.

If you are open to the world—this means you are open to other cultures, other religions, other places. It allows different cultures to share with each other the best they have, always respecting their own background. From the moment that one is able to understand that the world has a soul and that we are all part of it, we start to pay attention to very subtle things. We start treasuring the small things, the people next to us, the beauty of difference.