Things Do Not Always Happen

All Men Are Different. And Should Do Everything Possible To Continue To Be So.

In His Or Her Life, Each Person Can Take One Of Two Attitudes: To Build Or To Plant. Builders May Take Years Over Their Tasks, But One Day They Will Finish What They Are Doing. Then They Will Stop, Hemmed In By Their Own Walls. Life Becomes Meaningless Once The Building Is Finished. Those Who Plant Suffer The Storms And The Seasons And Rarely Rest. Unlike A Building, A Garden Never Stops Growing. And By Its Constant Demands On The Gardner's Attentions, It Makes Of The Gardener's Life A Great Adventure.

An Awareness Of Death Encourages Us To Live More Intensely.

If There Hadn't Been A Sixth Day, Man Would Not Exist; Copper Would Always Be Copper; And Lead Just Lead. It's True That Everything Has Its Personal Legend, But One Day That Personal Legend Will Be Realized. So Each Thing Has To Transform Itself Into Something Better, And To Acquire A New Personal Legend, Until, Someday, The Soul Of The World Becomes One Thing Only.

My Heart Is Afraid That It Will Have To Suffer, The Boy Told The Alchemist One Night As They Looked Up At The Moonless Sky. Tell Your Heart That The Fear Of Suffering S 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.