The Alchemist Quotes
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
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.
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.
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.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
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.
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.
His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
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.
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.
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.
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".
Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.
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.
As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.
I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.
The "Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole" attack!
Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?""Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time
Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you've stopped listening to them.
that's why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream.
that 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.
Those who don't understand their personal legends will fail to comprehend its teachings.