“Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man.
"What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.
The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”
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"What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.
The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”
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“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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