“But if I don’t think about love, I will be nothing.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
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“everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.”
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
Source: The Alchemist
“The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“People destroy what they love.”
Source: The Valkyries
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym [O Demônio e a srta Prym] (2000), p. x; this has also been misquoted as "A moment is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny."
Context: When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
“In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130 <!-- also p. 156 -->
Context: 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.
“We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.”
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Aleph
Source: Aleph (2011)
Variant: That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 97.
Context: In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
“Follow your dreams and take your risks.”
Source: The Valkyries
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
“… and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.”
Source: The Fifth Mountain
Maria's diary entry at the age of 17, p. 16.
Eleven Minutes (2003)
Introduction, p. xi.
The Alchemist (1988)
Source: The Valkyries (1992), p. 133.
“Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 167
“Stop being who you were and become who you are.”
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The Zahir
Source: The Zahir (2005), p. 215.
“Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
Variant: simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".
Source: The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 158.
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Brida
Source: Brida (1990).
Context: When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
Source: The Alchemist
Variant: You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
Source: The Alchemist
“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 184; this also has been quoted as "What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time."
