Words I got…The Alchemist

Fortunate to read this book! Started and done reading in 7 hours :)

Harish Boke
3 min readJan 13, 2018

Here are my takeaways:

* Personal calling — Path that God choose for you here on the earth.

* Each man kills the thing he loves — Oscar Wilde

* Each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

* Dreams are the language of God, and can be interpreted by soul.

* It’s dream in the language of world.

* When someone sees the same people everyday, they wind up becoming part of person’s life. And then they want person to change.

* Mysterious force. :)

* The soul of the world is nourished by people’s happiness

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

* If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you will loose your desire to work towards getting it.

* Everything in life has its price.

* People fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives everyday that sun rises.

* The boy felt jealous of the freedom of the wind.

* You cannot trust a man if you don’t know his house.

* Sarcastic- whoever has money is never really alone

* I am an adventurer, looking for treasure.

* There must be language that doesn’t depend on words.

* If i can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand world.

* All things are one.

* It’s called the principle of favorability, beginners luck. Because life wants you to achieve your destiny.

* You must always know what it is that you want.

* Creature like sheep, that are used to travelling, know about moving on.

* maktub!

* Allah: People need not fear the unknowns if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

* Earth is alive…. and it has a soul.

* If you can concentrate always on the present, you will be a happy man.

* People become fascinated with pictures of world, and wind up forgetting the language of the world.

* It’s not what enters men’s mouth that’s evil, it’s what comes out of their mouths that is!

* Wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

* Life attracts Life.

* Love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit it’s because it wasn’t true love!

* One is loved because one is loved. No reason needed for loving.

* Don’t think what you’ve left behind.

* What one finds is made pure matter, it will never spoil.

* There is only one way to learn, it’s through action.

* Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

* Everything in the universe evolved.

* 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.

* No project is completed until its objectives has been achieved.

* Life is a journey make sure you don’t miss a thing.

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