Quotes from book

The Alchemist

“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else……. above all dont forget to follow your destiny through to its conclusion”

“If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”

“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 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.”

“What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.”

“As he mused about these things, he realised that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.”

“I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.”

“There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.”

“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.”

“The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”

“Maktub,” she said. “If I am really part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.”

“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”

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

“I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.”

“If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.”

“I only invoked what you already knew.”

“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.”

“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.”