Reminiscing The Alchemist

Once again I went through the pages of The Alchemist. It's not that I reread it (yet!). I just tried to reminiscing the reasons why I once thought this was the best book ever. Here I share some of my favorite quotes from the book.

"But that disaster taught me to understand the word of Allah: people not need fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possesions 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"
- The Camel Driver-

"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."

"If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man...Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now"
-The Camel Driver-

"At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke - the language that everyone on earth is capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older then humanity, more ancient then the desert."

"If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day."
-Fatima-

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."
-The Alchemist-

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
-Fatima-

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself."
-The Alchemist-

"Don't think about what you've left behind."
-The Alchemist-

"The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of this wisdom."
-The Alchemist

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.
-Santiago-

Well well, the list stil can go on and on...