“The temperament reflects everything like a mirror! Gaze into it and admire what you see!“

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

But nature is too vegetable, too vapid. She has only sublimities and vastitudes and water and leaves. I begin to wish for firelight, privacy, and the limbs of one person.

Rhoda said, ‘so I put off my hopeless desire to be Susan, to be Jinny. But I will stretch my toes so that they touch the rail at the end of the bed; I will assure myself, touching the rail, of something hard. Now I cannot sink; cannot altogether fall through the thin sheet now. Now I spread my body on this frail mattress and hang suspended. I am above the earth now. I am no longer upright, to be knocked against and damaged

We‘re never inside someone else‘s head. We can never really know someone else‘s thoughts. And it‘s thoughts that count. Thought is reality. Actions can be faked.

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don‘t seem to matter very much, do they?”

When I first started, it wasn't making sense in beginning but as I got into deep more pages it kept me stuck. I personally love mysteries and thriller and it has something which is disturbing, distorting, hideous.

"Instinct always trumps the reason"

It's from the book itself. After reading little more I got the instinct that it's going to be great and it gives me reason to keep reading, then found this.

“Don‘t give in to your fears,” said the alchemist, in a strangely gentle voice. “If you do, you won‘t be able to talk to your heart.” “But I have no idea how to turn myself into the wind.” “If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”