The Alchemist

“Hunches,” his mother used to call them. The boy was beginning to understand that 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.

He realized that he could do the same thing the old man had done—sense whether a person was near to or far from his Personal Legend.

“What’s the world’s greatest lie?” the boy asked, completely surprised.

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.

“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.”

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting,

“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.”

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.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.