My favorite lines from"THE ALCHEMIST"

World's greatest lie- we lose control of what's happeneing to us, and our lives become controlled by our fate.

People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it is better to be the sheep, who dont say anything. And better still be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the 'the time when you want to hear them. But when you are talking to people they some things that are so strange that you dont know how to continue conversation.

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something,

it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
 

Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he

thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.

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.

"It's called the principle of favorability.

When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. Beginner's luck."

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else. And don't

forget the language of omens. And, above all, don't forget to follow your destiny through

to its conclusion

'The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the

drops of oil on the spoon."

"I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would

like to see happen, not what actually does."

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it,"

If I can

learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

You must always know what it is that you want

Every blessing ignored becomes

a curse.

"I am always nearby, when someone wants to realize their destiny," the old king had told

him."

When someone makes a

decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had

never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

"If I

could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words

luck and coincidence. It's withthose words that the universal language is written.''

intuition is really a sudden

immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people

are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

people need

not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

But there was one idea that seemed to repeat itself throughout

all the books: all things are the manifestation of one thing only.

"Why do they make things so complicated?" he asked the Englishman one night. The boy

had noticed that the Englishman was irritable, and missed his books.

"So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand," he said.

"Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value.

I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also

understand the language of things.

'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens

twice will surely happen a third time.'

"If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is

only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."