If you feel lost in life or wondering if you are on the right track, these Paulo Coelho The Alchemist Book Quotes will motivate you to follow your dreams.
The Alchemist is Paulo Coelho’s novel, which is an intuitive and inspirational story about a shepherd boy named Santiago who goes on a quest to the pyramids of Egypt after having a recurring dream of finding a treasure there but what he finds there instead is much more pleasurable.
The Alchemist was firstly published in 1988 in Portuguese and later it became a widely translated international bestseller. The Alchemist is translated into more than 70 languages. This book was completed within 2 weeks as Paulo said that he was able to write at this pace because the story was “already written in his soul”.
The Alchemist teaches us how to never give up on our dreams. It is about finding one’s destiny. However, according to The New York Times, The Alchemist is more of a self-help book.
The Alchemist novel focus on many things including love, fate, and following your dreams but the advice given to Santiago that “when you really want something to happen, the whole universe will conspire so that your wish comes true” is the core.
Here we are sharing a collection of Paulo Coelho The Alchemist Book Quotes for you to get inspired and follow your dreams. These quotes will also motivate you to face your fears that are stopping you from achieving your goals.
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist Book Quotes
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It’s what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny… It’s a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and you will, because there is one great truth on this planet: 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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“If you concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. You’ll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens…Life will be a party for you, a grand festival because life is the moment we’re living right now.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Life attracts life.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Give yourself the freedom to try out new things
Don’t be so set in the ways that you can’t grow.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I only invoked what you already knew.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Dreams are the language of God.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I’m like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“This is why alchemy exists,” the boy said. “So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. The lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead, and then lead will have to turn itself into gold.
That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise,” said the seer. “If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“You must always know what it is that you want.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The Alchemist Book Quotes About Love
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked.
“Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it’s easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Don’t think about what you’ve left behind” The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. “If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Because I don’t live in either my past or my future.I’m interested only in the present”.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The Alchemist Book Quotes About Fate
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you’ll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it’s a future that was written so as to be altered.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one ‘dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Sometimes there’s just no way to hold back the river.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It’s not what enters men’s mouth that is evil,” said the alchemist. “It’s what comes out of their mouths that is.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I’m alive. When I’m eating that’s all I think about. If I’m on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight, it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“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.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than the suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“There is only that moment and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Never stop dreaming.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The Alchemist Fatima Quotes
“Everything in life has its price.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“If there hadn’t been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper, and lead just lead. It’s true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You’ve got to find the treasure so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Learn to recognize omens, and follow them”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I’m afraid that if my dream is realized, I’ll have no reason to go on living.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Whenever he saw the sea or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I learned that the world has a soul and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you´ll find your treasure”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The Alchemist Book Quotes – The Universe Conspires
“Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?”
“Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous…I’ve discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“All things are manifestations of one thing only.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The boy reached through to the Soul of the World and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.” The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Listen to your heart. It knows all things because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“We are afraid of losing what we have.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Are you following your dreams?
Many times, the thing which stops us from fulling our dreams is not the lack of talent but the fear of failure. This fear stops us from following our dreams or even try to dream big. Trying is the key to success. Don’t be afraid of failure, but be afraid of never trying to have the courage to achieve your goals. We hope these The Alchemist Book Quotes will teach you something and gave you the courage to follow your dreams.
Believe that no matter what and how big your dream is, there is an abundance of everything in this universe and the whole universe is just waiting for you to ask or to try to have the courage to ask what you want.
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