Highlights from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke

…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.”

“If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it.”

…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.

“It’s not what enters men’s mouths that’s evil,” said the alchemist. “It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.”

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

…when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

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