The Alchemist

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Literature & Fiction
Author:	Paulo Coelho

This book will have you thinking whether you have been able to do the things you REALLY WANT TO DO; whether you have achieved your REAL GOALS and not the goals that others have for you or others dictate you to do.  Here are some quotations I'll always remember from this book:

"When you are loved, you can do anything in creation.  When you are loved, there's no need to understand at all what's happening, because everything happens within you."

"There's no need for iron to be the same as copper, or copper the same as gold.  Each performs its own exact function as a unique being..."

"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."

There you go.  I hope you'll catch the real essence of those words.  I'll leave them to your judgment.  God bless you all!