When I read a book I have the habit of highlighting certain passages I find interesting or useful. After I finish the book I’ll type up those passages and put them into a note on my phone. I’ll keep them to comb through every so often so that I remember what that certain book was about. That’s what these are. So if I ever end up lending you a book, these are the sections that I’ve highlighted in that book. Enjoy!
He recognized that he was feeling something he had never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. With he girl with the raven hair, his days would never be the same again.
They never have to make any decisions, he thought. Maybe that’s why they always stay close to me.
Whenever he could, he sought out a new road to travel. He had never been to that ruined church before, in spite of having traveled through those parts many times.
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary. Only wise men are able to understand them
When someone sees the same people everyday as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the persons 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.
Bakers have homes, while shepards sleep out in the open. Parents would rather see their children marry bakers than shepards. The boy felt a pang in his heart, thinking about the merchant’s daughter. there was surely a baker in her town.
And that’s when you always appear on the scene? Not always in this way, but I always appear in one form or another. Sometimes I appear in the form of a solution or a good idea.
If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Sometimes it’s better to leave things as they are, he decided to say nothing.
For her, every day was the same, and 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.
Butterflies are a good omen.
The boy put stones in his pouch. From then on, he would make his own decisions. Don’t forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.
You cannot trust a man if you don’t know his house.
People talk a lot about omens, but they really don’t know what they’re saying.
We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it’s doing to help us.
But we could sell tea in crystal glasses. The people will enjoy the tea and want to buy the glasses. I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
He began to import enormous quantities of tea, along with his crystal, and his shop was sought out by men and women with a thirst for things new.
When you have enough money to buy a flock larger than the one you had before, you should buy it.
Once you get into the desert, there’s no going back. And when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
When you want something with all your heart, that’s when you are closest to the soul of the world. It’s always a positive force.
The most important text in the literature of alchemy contained only a few lines. “Well then, why do we need all these books?” the boy asked. “So that we can understand those few lines.”
They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.
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 was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.
When two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment.
Realizing that he had loved he before he even knew she existed. He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.
The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes.
I want my husband to wander as free as the wind that shapes the dunes. And, if I have to, I will accept the fact that he has become a part of the clouds, and the animals, and the water of the desert.
When you are in love, things make even more sense.
If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise. If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.
“I had to test your courage”, the stranger said “Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous, because I’ve known that every hour was a part of the dream that I would find it.
The darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.
When you posses great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
We are in no hurry, we are men of the desert.
And that’s where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
Will I learn to do that someday? This was my personal legend, not yours. But I wanted to show you that it was possible.
But this payment goes well beyond my generosity! Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
The boy told himself that on the way toward realizing his own personal legend, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.
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