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| Love & Life |
| Little Prince |
| The Alchemist Quotes |
| It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. 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. The boy didn't know what a person's "destiny" was. It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. 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. "I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned that many alchemists realized their destinies, and wound up discovering the Soul of the World, the Philosopher's Stone, and the Elixir of Life. But above all, I learned that these things are all so simple they could be written on the surface of an emerald." 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. When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought. Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World. Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. 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. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you. |