Quotes on 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.

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.

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.

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.

When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

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.

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

As he mused about these things, he realized 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.

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

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

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.

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.

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.