The Alchemist : Path to find Inner Strenght and Pursue your Dream

The Alchemist

I have read this book recently after my friend pushed me so much to read, even he has given me the book. The situation also supported me to read the book as I had to travel nearly 28 hours in train and by virtue of Neelam, the flood in Andhra Pradesh later that converted into more than 40 hours journey and in this time period, The Alchemist was my friend to kill the time but as I get deeper and deeper into the book, that become my philosopher and guide to realize the dream and to understand the world around me, understand my approach towards life and most importantly to understand myself. The quotes from the book are all moral of this life and always helpful, inspiring to proceed ahead to chase your dream irrespective of what happens and how happens. This is the book which gave me the eternal morality of life and how to deal with it. I try to go through the quotes every day, which might help me in any situation and in any manner.

So I thought it will be a good idea to put all those quotes in a single platform which will help us to do a crash course of our life.

Everyone can remember that ornamental and famous Hindi dialogue from the movie, Om Shanti Om which extracted from the line “When you want something, the entire universe conspires in helping you to achieve It.”; there are numerous inspiring quotes which helped to open my eyes towards different difficulties in life.

“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.”

“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 travellers 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.”

“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.”

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.”

“Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.”

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

“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”

“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.”

“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.”

“...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.”

“God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.”

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

“…to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.”

“Dreams are the language of God.”

“All things are manifestations of one thing only.”

“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.”

“I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.”

“We are afraid of losing what we have.”

“Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.”

“...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 true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny”

“When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.”

“What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up.”

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

“Maybe 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.”

“I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow.
May the fire of love grow in our hearts.
May the fire of transformation glow in our movements.
May the fire of purification burn away our sins.
May the fire of justice guide our steps.
May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths.
May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished.”

“It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary”

“¤ Give yourself freedom to try out new things
Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.

¤ It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

¤ Take time everyday to do something silly.

¤ My lesson in life has been learning to listen. Almost everyone has something of value to teach you. You can learn about life from the most unexpected resources, even children. It's a wise man who goes to others for help. Everyone was a beginner at some point in his life; even our teachers were once pupils.”

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

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

“People need not fear the unknown if they're capable of achieving what they need and want.”

“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.”

“Why do they make things so complicated?"
"So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value."
"It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.”

“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.”

“...love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.”

“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 on Earth is being continuously transformed.”

“Hearts can be treacherous, but the best way to keep them from fooling you is to listen to them intently”