My most loved phrases/lines from The Alchemist

1) 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.
2) There is one GREAT TRUTH on this planet: whoever you are, whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.
3) Personal Legend – it is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their personal legend is.
4) He had to choose between something he had accustomed to and something he wanted to have.
5) 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.
6) The boy felt jealous of the freedom of the wind, and saw that he could have the same freedom. There was nothing to hold him back except himself.
7) The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
8) He wept because God was unfair, and because this was the way God repaid those who believed in their dreams. *
9) I’m afraid that if my dream is realized, I’ll have no reason to go on living.*
10) You must always know what it is that you want.
11) I don’t know how to deal with change. I’m used to the way I am.*
12) You have been a real blessing to me. Today, I understand something I did not see before: every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don’t want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known.
13) Sometimes, there is just no way to hold back the river.
14) There was a language in the world that every one understood, it was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part a search for something believed in and desired.
15) Making a decision was only the beginning of things. 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.
16) People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
17) We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it is 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.
18) Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn’t the same as mine, nor mine as his. But you are both in search of our Personal Legends, and I respect him for that.
19) Do not be impatient. Eat when it is time to eat. And move along when it is time to move along.
20) Someone in the world awaits you, whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in a great city.
21) That’s why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream. The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That’s the way it will be with our love for each other.
22) Everyday was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.
23) You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his personal legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it was not true love.
24) One is loved because one is loved. NO reason is needed for loving!
25) Wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.
26) One dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
27) Every search begins with beginner’s luck, and every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
28) The darkest hour of the night came just before dawn.
29) When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.