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And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
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When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
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So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
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The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
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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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Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
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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.
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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 it.
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Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
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This is what we call love. 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.
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People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
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We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
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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.
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I dont live in either my past or my future. Im interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, youll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment were living now.
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Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
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When each day is the same as the next, its because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
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Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked."Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.
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When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
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It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
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Maktub" (It is written.)
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Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.
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And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
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To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
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There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
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When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, 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.
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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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Maktub, she said. If I am really part of your dream, youll come back one day.
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It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.
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It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
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You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.
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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.
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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.
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The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus.The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.But this was not how the author of the book ended the story.He said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears.'Why do you weep?' the goddesses asked.'I weep for Narcissus," the lake replied.'Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus,' they said, 'for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand.''But... was Narcissus beautiful?' the lake asked.'Who better than you to know that?' the goddesses asked in wonder. 'After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!'The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:'I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.''What a lovely story,' the alchemist thought.
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God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
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Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the 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 weve learned as weve moved toward that dream. Thats the point at which most people give up. Its the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
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Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.
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Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
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The secret is here in the present. 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."-- The Alchemist
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Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny
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But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
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My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.
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The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.
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Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.
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Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.
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It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
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