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The Alchemist (1988)
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Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.
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Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success
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They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.
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He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.
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I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
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The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." — The Alchemist
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From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive.
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"If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur."
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No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.
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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. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now.
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
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Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.
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Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
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I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.
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Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. … It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
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If you come here, you will find a hidden treasure.
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The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.
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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
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When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
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There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.
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I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
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As he mused about these things, he realised that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
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I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.
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It's the oasis," said the camel driver. "Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked. "Because we have to sleep.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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August 24, 1947
(age 76)
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