The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

p.18

The books describes people's inability to choose their own Personal Legends. And it ends up saying that everyone believes the world's greatest lie: 

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

p.21

Personal Legend is what you have always wanted to accomplish. 

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legends is. 

p. 22

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

p. 62

"Never stop dreaming," the old king had said, " Follow the omens." 

p.62

There was a language in the world that everyone understood ... 

It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired. 

p.84

Everyone has his or her own way of learning somethings. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. 

But we're both in search of our Personal Legends, and I respect him for that. 

p.85

When I'm eating, that's all I think about. if I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. ...

...Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present.

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.  

You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens. 

Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now. 

p.89

In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. 

So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. 

If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path. 

'God placed them along my path'.  

p.92

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 was capable of understanding in their heart. 

It was love. 

Something older than humanity, more ancient that the desert.

p.97

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

That's the way it will be with our love for each other. 

p.103

How do I guess at the future? Based on the omens of the present. 

The secret is here in the present. 

Forget about the future. Live each day. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity. 

p.115

"isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. 

"it's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said teh alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is." 

p. 116

Remember that:

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

p.122

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

p. 129-130

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the world, and it will one day return there. 

No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.