“To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

Source: The Alchemist

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

E quando você quer alguma coisa, todo o Universo conspira para que você realize seu desejo.
Variant: And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 22; a variant of this has become attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen" — but no occurrence of this a statement has been located prior to in The Gift of Depression : Twenty-one Inspirational Stories Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope (2001) by John F. Brown, p. 56

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