“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.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 156.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Paulo Coelho844
Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
“There's only one legend. That's me.”
Roberto Durán (1951) Panamanian boxer
http://www.cmgworldwide.com/sports/duran/quotes.html
“Ann Coulter has become a legend in her own mind.”
Peter T. King (1944) American politician
as quoted in Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hate (2006) by Susan Estrich, p. 71.
Rekha (1954) Indian film actress
Susan Dewey in [Dewey, Susan, Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India, http://books.google.com/books?id=-WamxY5bQtIC&pg=PA111, 2008, Syracuse University Press, 978-0-8156-3176-7, 111–]
“Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Tim Berners-Lee (1955) British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
"The Guardian profile : Tim Berners-Lee"(12 August 2005) http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/aug/12/uknews.onlinesupplement
“Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)”
Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer
Source: The Capture
Richard Matheson book I Am Legend
Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 3
Context: True, he thought, but no one ever got the chance to know it. Oh, they knew it was something, but it couldn’t be that — not that. That was imagination, that was superstition, there was no such thing as that.
And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.