"If someone sees the same people every day,..... , they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
"-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. That’s the world’s
greatest lie"
"..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. It’s your mission on earth."
"The Soul of the World is nourished by people’s happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realise one’s Personal Legend is a person’s only real obligation"
"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping
you to achieve it.”
"He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
"If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it."
"We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it’s doing to help us. It’s called the principle of favorability. Or beginner’s luck.”
"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."
"The closer one gets to realizing his Personal Legend, the more that
Personal Legend becomes his true reason for being, thought the boy."
"people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want"
"when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward"
"Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees"
"To do that successfully, I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work"
"to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.'
"It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouth that is."
"what kept you at the oasis was your own fear that you
might never come back"
"Most people see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place."
"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving"
"When men are at war with one another, the Soul of the World can hear the screams of battle. No one fails to suffer the consequences of everything under the sun."
"when something evolves, everything around that thing evolves as well."
“If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he
needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to
achieve: the fear of failure.”
"there’s no need for iron to be the same as copper, or copper the same as gold. Each performs its own exact function as a unique being, and everything would be a symphony of peace if the hand that wrote all this had stopped on the fifth day of creation"
"when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."
"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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