"Because it's the thought of Mecca that keeps me alive...""I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living"...Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.

What's the world's greatest lie?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 greatest lie.

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

If you start out by promising what you don't have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love... the love that speaks the Language of the World

...for her, every day was the same, and 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.

The stories of the famous alchemists who had dedicated their entire lives to purifies metal as they believed that, if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the Soul of the World which allowed them to understand anything on earth, because it was the universal language that understood by everybody.The discovery called the Master Work, contains of the liquid part was called the Elixir of Life that cured all illness, and the solid part was called the Philosopher's Stone that can transform metal into gold.— page 83

The Soul of The World

The darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

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

The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

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.

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.

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

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A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel The Alchemist became an international best-seller and he has published 30 more books since then.

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