Alchemist

Finally SE presentation is over. It took whole of last week. First preparing the slides then practicing role play, writing report and answering offline qustions. All these things took a lot of time. In between wrote my BTP report and worked for Faculty cultural meet too.  BTP viva is there on wednesday, have to prepare for it but was not in a mood to study.  ‘Alchemist’  was lying on the table so thought of reading it again. I just love the book..can read it any number of times. Here are some of my favourite quotes from the book.

1. “When someone sees the same people every day, they wind up becoing 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.“

2. “The world’s greatest lie 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.”

3. “You must always know what it is that you want.”

4. “When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it.”

5. “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.”

6. “I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting. Now, I’m beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I’m happy at least that I didn’t wait twenty years.”

7. “The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances. 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. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.”

8. “You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.”

9. “Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you. Because you’ll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them.”

10. “Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”

11. “Your eyes show the strength of your soul,”

12. “Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.”