Some excerpts

Some of the excerpts from "The Alchemist" that I liked.

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

• World's greatest lie is that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. 

• When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
  

• But I'm afraid that it would all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.

• 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.

• 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. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

• Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.
  

• World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. 

• Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.

• It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn. 

• If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.