December 10, 2013

The alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Few sentences that I would like to share from this book.

Here it goes,

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They're 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 realise their destiny.
Mysterious force appears to be negative but actually it shows you how to realise your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will, because 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 your soul. It's your mission on earth.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Everything in life have it's price.

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

I'm like everyone else- I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

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.

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another never will discover his own.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happen twice will surely happen a third time.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know.

Indeed it is a nice read. I liked it more, for the main character in the book and I had one thing in common, we both love travelling. He wanted to see the world and I too aspire to see if not whole world but at least famous places. I love travelling and visiting different places knowing about them and meeting new people and knowing about them as well! :-)
Though as the story proceeded further I deviated from the main character. But everyone have different story!
I loved the storyline and more or less everything about the book. There is even love story involved. I guess life and it's learnings are incomplete without love in anyones life!
:-)

P. S.: Thanks to my friend Sara who thoughtfully bought this book and shared with me.
But Sara, I understood the story in once! :-P
May be because I always read books or watch movies or mostly do anything when I can concentrate properly so that the means of learning something from it is never lost and the purpose get served and not lead to waste of time. :-) It can also be because I'm use to reading such type of books!
Never mind I'm thankful to you for giving me such a nice book, I hope this much of buttering is enough to receive more good books in future! ;-)

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