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The Alchemist


 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho



      Today I went to library after lunch to submit my old book and issue some new ones. Most of the books in our institute's library are utter crap. You can barely find a good book, So when I could not a good new book I winded up issuing an old one The Alchemist. It is a wonderful book from Paulo Coelho, how I know it is a wonderful book? because I have read it twice before. The reason why I started reading again is that I love it has a nice story most of all the quotes which the author uses are amazingly incredible. I am gonna write some of those quotes here simultaneously when I am reading it.

  # "Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own".

  # what is the world's greatest lie? It is" that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate".

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

  # "There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it it that you do, when you really want something, it is because that desire originated in the soul of the universe . It is your mission on earth".

So far this much only 19/3/2020  06:54 PM

   Finally I finished the book, for the last two days I could not read much but today I started when I woke up then had lunch then read it again until now and finished it at 3:25 PM.
 I enjoyed it a lot, every time I read it I understand and realize new things and learn new rules of the universe. It is so exhilarating to read about the world and human beings and the connection between them. They are a profound connection with each other, Because their destinies have been written by the same hands. The story is so interesting and you need to be in your full conscious to understand the next event properly.  I can not put in to words what I have learned from this book maybe because it is hard to write or maybe because I do not have a strong vocabulary foundation as Paulo Coelho. I just wish that I can put what I have learned in to my real and practical world, and use every  single teaching in the book.

Here are the remaining quotes from the book...

# "If you start out by promising what you do not even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it".

# "There was nothing to hold him back except himself".

# "Happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon."

# "Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."

# "Sometimes, there is just no way to hold back the river."

# "The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reasons for being."

# "People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving  what they need and want."

# "The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes."

# "It is not what enters men's mouths that is evil. It is what comes out of their mouths that is."

# "Every search beings with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested."

# "The darkest hour of the night came comes just before the dawn."

# "Your eyes show the strength of your soul."

# "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

# "When you are loved , you can anything in creation."

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

3:59 PM  23/3/2020












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