Quotes from The Alchemist
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a great book with lots of good points. Here are some of my favorite:
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Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
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In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.
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It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
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If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
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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.
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This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.
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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.
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Because 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 right now.
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"Because you will never again be able to keep it (heart) quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you're thinking about life and about the world."
Let me end it with a quote from Goethe:
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, do it - boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
hacking and gonzo since 2000
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