Review ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids.

By TAPHAPublished about a year ago • 1 min read

13 Golden Life Lesson From The Book: "ALCHEMIST" 📚

1. The secret of life, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

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

3. When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

4. The most simple things in life are the most extraordinary.

5. When you want something the whole universe conspires in help you achieve it.

6. The treasure that we seek elsewhere, we find it at our doorstep.

7. The closer one gets to realising his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being, thought the boy.

8. There is only one way to learn. It's through action.

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

10. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

11. See the world in terms of what you would like to see happen, not what does.

12. 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.

13. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that 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.

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