It has been a despair time during the COVID-19, the majority of people were just staying at home for self-isolation. Students can’t go to school, workers were doing online jobs for couple weeks already. For me, I have been went through so many tough things during this hard time. Like I had to transfer to another totally new lab and all my projects had to be abrogated due to my supervisor unexpected demission; I don’t know how to prepare for the application of PhD without much data. Too much unexpected pressure were caused by my previous supervisor’s demission and also all the bad results and severe responsibilities were taken by students. I know it’s unfair but I can’t do anything to change this kind of situation.
Even though it is a tough time, I still put myself in a yea-saying position. Before officially move to Shanghai Tech university, I have been living with my aunt family more than two weeks. It’s definitely a challenge period when I lived with a young girl who is just less than 7 years old staying at home all day and night. It’s hard for me to focus on study or any other types online works. Well, don’t complain is always be my motto. Find a way out from devastating to luminosity is more important than complaining.
Here is what I found, collecting words and sentences from one of my favorite books that I am really found to is a way out.
1. “Reading The Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise while the rest of the world still slept.”
2. “Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don’t all have the courage to confront our own dream.”
3. “Each man kills the thing he loves.”
4. “They trust me, and they’ve forgotten how to rely on their own instincts, because I lead them to nourishment.”
5. “The horizon was tinged with red, and suddenly the sun appeared.”
6. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
7. “Dreams are the language of God.”
8. “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.”
9. “It’s a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your Personal Legend. It prepares your spirits and your will, because there is one great truth on the planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.”
10. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
11. “If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it.”
12. “In any case, it’s good that you’ve learned that everything in life has its price. This is what the warriors of the light try to reach.”
13. “He has to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.”
14. “There is a force that wants you to realize your personal legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.”
15. “Don’t forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.”
16. “You cannot trust a man if you don’t know his house.”
17. “The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
18. “I know it’s the vanity of vanities.”
19. “The boy knew that in money there was magic; whoever has money is never really alone.”
20. “I’m like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”
21. “There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was asleep. No sound from the bazaars, no arguments among the merchants, no men climbing to the towers to chant. No hope, no adventure, no old kings or personal legends, no treasure, and no pyramids. It was as if the world had fallen silent because the boy’s soul had. He sat there, staring blankly through the door of the cafe, wishing that he had died, and that everything would end forever at that moment.
22. “Well, when I took my sheep through the fields some of them might have died if we had come upon a snake. But that’s the way life is with sheep and with shepherds.”
23. “But we two have to live with our mistakes.”
24. “Because it’s the thought of Mecca that keeps me alive. That’s what helps me face these days that are all the same, these mute crystals on the shelves, and lunch and dinner at that same horrible cafe. I’m afraid that if my dream is realized, I’ll have no reason to go on living.”
25. “I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.”
26. “Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
27. “And maybe it wasn’t that they were teaching me, but that I was learning from them.”
28. “Sometimes, there’s just no way to hold back the river.”
29. “But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used though out the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for somethings believed in and desired.”
30. “He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe because that wasn’t really his dream.”
31. “Everything in life is an omen.”
32. “The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.”
33. “The closer one gets to realizing his personal legend, the more that personal legend becomes his true reason for being, thought the boy.”
34. “But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.”
35. “The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.”
36. “We all afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
37. “We make a lot of detours, but we’re always heading for the same destination.”
38. “In alchemy, it’s called the soul of the world. When you want something with all your heart, that’s when you are closest to the soul of the world. It’s always a positive force.”
39. “Eat when it’s time to eat. And move along when it’s time to move along.”
40. “At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the soul of world surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as has theirs here at the well.”
41. “He felt the urge to go out into the desert, to see if its silence held the answers to his questions.”
42. “He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things.”
43. “To die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day.”
44. “Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.”
45. “Show me where there is life in the desert. Only those who can see such signs of life are able to find treasure.”
46. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
47. “Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.”
48. “The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and copy of paradise.”
49. “You don’t even have to understand the desert: all you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation.”
50. “In pursing your dream, you might lose everything you’ve won.”
51. “Tell your heart that the fear fo 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.”
52. “Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”
53. “Dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon. Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”
54. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
55. “Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.”
56. “He reminded himself that no project is completed until its objective has been achieved.”
57. “It’s true; life really is generous to those who pursue their personal legend, the boy thought.”
58. “About the author: In 1980, he experienced one of the defining moments of his life: he walked the five hundred plus mile road of Santiago de Compostela In northwestern Spain.”
The end
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