Someone Awesome's Key Ideas from The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho

What’s the world’s greatest lie?” the boy asked, completely surprised.“It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”

when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.