The Alchemist: My Favourite Quotes

My Favourites from the Alchemist

“And, when you want something, the entire 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“...and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”

“You must always know what it is that you want.”

“Dreams are the language of God.”

“We are afraid of losing what we have.”

“We have to be prepared for change.”

“...there is one great truth on this planet: 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.”

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.”

“I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.”

“No project is completed until its objective has been achieved.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.”

“Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.”

“It's now what enters men’s mouth that’s evil. It's what comes out of their mouth that is.”

“May be God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees”

“Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.”

“Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.”

“...life is the moment we're living right now.”

“Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." “The darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.”

“If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“Beauty is the greatest seducer of men.”

“It's the thought of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. All things happen for a reason.”

“But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realise their Personal Legend”

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