The Alchemist Quotes

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

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

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

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.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

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

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked."Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

Maktub, she said. If I am really part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

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.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

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.

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

You must always know what it is that you want.

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.

When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."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.