"Nothing can happen to any man that nature has not fitted him to endure."
"Try to move men by persuasion; yet act against their will if the principles of justice so direct. But if someone uses force to obstruct you, then take a different line;resign yourself without a pang, and turn the obstacle into an opportunity for the exercise of some other virtue. Your attempt was always subject to reservations, remember; you were not aiming at the impossible. At what then? Simply at making the attempt itself."
"Love nothing but that which comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny."
"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing..."
"Never go beyond the sense of your original impressions....Supply no additions of your own, and you are safe..."
"There is a type of person who, if he renders you a service, has no hesitation in claiming the credit for it. Another, though not prepared to go so far as that, will nevertherless secretly regard you as in his debt and be fully conscious of what he has done. But there is also the man who, one might almost say, has no consciousness at all of what he has done, like the vine which produces a cluster of grapes and then, having yielded its rightful fruit, looks for no more thanks than a horse that has run his race, a hound that has tracked his quarry, or a bee that has hived her honey. Like them, the man who has done one good action, as the vine passes on to the bearing of another summer's grapes."
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
The Alchemist, by Paolo Cuelho
"... like Santiago the shepherd boy, we all need to be aware of our personal calling. What is a personal calling? It is a God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend...."
"...'Well, there is only one piece of advice I can give you,' said the wisest of wise men. 'The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon'."
"There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey..."
"That night, the boy slept deeply, and, when he awoke, his heart began to tell him things that came from the Soul of the World. It is said that all people who are happy have God within them. And that happiness could be found in a grain of sand from the desert, as the alchemist had said...."Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him," his heart said. We, people's hearts, seldom say much about those treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later, we simply let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own fate. But, unfortunately, very few follow the path laid out for them - the path to their Personal Legends, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do so, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place..."
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."
"Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart"
"...'Well, there is only one piece of advice I can give you,' said the wisest of wise men. 'The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon'."
"There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey..."
"That night, the boy slept deeply, and, when he awoke, his heart began to tell him things that came from the Soul of the World. It is said that all people who are happy have God within them. And that happiness could be found in a grain of sand from the desert, as the alchemist had said...."Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him," his heart said. We, people's hearts, seldom say much about those treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later, we simply let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own fate. But, unfortunately, very few follow the path laid out for them - the path to their Personal Legends, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do so, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place..."
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."
"Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart"
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