!!!HELP!!! Anyone who has read "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho!?!?!?!? HELP!!

Question

hi there.

i need some serious quotations here!

for the life of me i can not find a reasonable quotation that shows Santiago's tenacity and persistence when he loses everything in Africa but then works and pushes through to get enough money to pursue his Personal Legend!!!!!!!!!

please... ANYTHING will help....

ps if you give a link...please tell me where exactly on the web page i can find the info you are talking about.

and if you give a quote from the book...please state what page.

thanks.

h.

Answer 1

I absolutely adore that book! I'm not at my home right now, so I don't have my copy, but Wikiquote might help you out:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Alchemi...

These are the quotes I have in my personal journal of quotes, but I'm not sure what pages they are on:

"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." (I'm fairly sure this is on page 150)

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is 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."

"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."

~ Pax