Quotes from book

The Alchemist

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”

“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.”

“I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

“We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.”

“We have to be prepared for change.”

“The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.”

“We are afraid of losing what we have.”

“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.”

“Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present".”

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

“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.”

“So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.”

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

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

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”

“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'm an adventurer, looking for 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.”