Quotes from The Alchemist.
When you want something all the world conspires in helping you achieve it.
In the long run what people think about bakers and shepherds become more important to them than their own destinies.
If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet you will lose your interest in working towards getting it .
The secret of happiness is to see all marvels of the world and still not spill the drops of oil in the spoon.
The Gods should not have desires because they don’t have destinies.
Like everyone else I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen not what actually does.
Promise to make your own decisions.
One has to chose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
There must be a language that does not depend on words.
All things are one. The whole events are interrelated.
Cleaning the crystal cleans our own minds of negative thoughts.
The world falls silent when the soul falls asleep.
The treasure (destiny) sometimes becomes a painful memory.
The thought of Mecca (destiny) keeps me alive.
Beauty is the great seducer of man Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Sometimes there is just no way to hold back the river.
The language of enthusiasm is that of things accomplished with love and purpose and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.
Two hours closer to desire extended to one year by circumstances does not matter.
Luck and coincidence are the two words that the universal language is written.
People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
When you want something with all your heart that’s when you are closest to the Soul of the world.
It is always a positive force. Purification of something by own effort purifies ones heart.
Everyone has his or her own way of learning things.
Life will be a party, a grand festival because life is the moment we are living right now.
The closer you get to the realisation of dream , the more difficult things become.
But in the beginning there is the beginner’s luck Good things come as a pleasant surprise.
For bad things you greatly suffer before they even occur you know in advance.
When God reveals the future it is only for one reason: it is a future written so as to be altered.
Courage is the most important quality most essential to understand the language of the world.
Camels go tirelessly and then lean and die, Horses tire bit by bit.
Love never keeps a man from pursuit of his destiny.
If he did it was because it was not true love:love that speaks the language of the world.
One is loved because one is loved no reason is needed for loving.
There is only one way to learn: through action.
The existence of this world is only a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect.
Listen to your heart because it came from the soul of the world.
Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. All people who are happy have god within them.
Every search ends with the victors being severely tested.
Seldom are you believed when you have great treasures and you try to tell others.
No one fails to suffer the consequences of everything under the sun.
Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
Alchemy is about penetrating the soil of the world and discovering the treasure that has been reserved for you.
The world is only the visible aspect of god.
And what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material plane.
It is love that turns lead into gold.
There is no need for iron to be bronze and bronze to be gold each perform an exact function as a unique being.
Men rarely understood the words of the wise. So gold instead of being seen as a symbol of evolution became the basis of conflict.
The sun can see the soul of the world and together they make plants grow and sheep to seek out shade When we strive to become better than we are everything around us becomes better too.
When we love we always strive to be better than we are.
When we are in Love we say prayer without words or pleas…….
