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I could not isolate them from their father’s culture. They had to face this challenge, and for the first time, they would be alone.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“The secret is here in the present, if you pay attention to the present, you can improve up it. And if you improve the present, what comes later will also be better. Each day in itself, brings with it an eternity.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”
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only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”
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“Show me where there is life in the desert. Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find treasure.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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