My favorite lines from The Alchemist (novel)

My favorite lines from The Alchemist

Last week at a friends house I was introduced with The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I was hooked with the simple writing style and with inner dialogue of the protagonist from the first page. It touched me in a way that very few book ever did. I plan to post a detailed post regarding the massage embedded in the text (book) but for now I am going to share some of the golden nuggets of  The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. "






"He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."




"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."







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

"I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does."







When something evolves, everything around that thing evolves as well







The hills of Andalusia were only two hours away, but there was an entire desert between him and the Pyramids. Yet the boy felt that there was another way to regard his situation: he was actually two hours closer to his treasure…

"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.....

· "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."







 "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."