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.” 

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

“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.” 

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

“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.” 

“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.” 

“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.” 

“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.” 

“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.” 

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” 

“It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.” 

“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,  the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.” 

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

“Maktub" (It is written.)” 

“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.” 

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

“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.” 

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

“making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.” 

“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.” 

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

“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.” 

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

“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.” 

“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.” 

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

“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.” 

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

“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.” 

“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.” 

“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.” 

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

“The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.”

Source: http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/4835472-o-alquimista