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This post includes 60 The Alchemist Quotes that’ll inspire you to follow your heart and pursue your passion in life!
The Alchemist is one of my absolute favorite books! (Read it here if you haven’t!)It has provided me faith and courage during my hardest times and motivated me to keep going. Every time I feel the urge to quit, I pick up this book to remind myself why I started in the first place. Pursuing your dreams can be a lonely and mentally-challenging road to take. But not following your dreams can be even more tough on your soul.
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What Is The Main Message of The Alchemist
The main message of the Alchemist is the importance of pursuing your dreams and following what your heart truly desires
The young boy in the book learned to listen to his heart was eventually led to discover great treasures. The Alchemist urges us to follow our intuition, trust our hearts, and fulfill our life desires. At the end of the day, we can never escape from what our soul truly wants and needs. So why not go for it?
The Alchemist Quotes About Fate
- “The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
- “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
- “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.”
- “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
- “Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
- “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
- “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”
- “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.”
- “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”
- “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
- “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”
- “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.”
The Alchemist Quotes About Pursuing Your Dreams
- “If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
- “There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
- “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value. It’s only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”
- “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
- “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.”
- “When you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
- “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.”
Inspirational Quotes About Following Your Dreams
- “One’s Personal Legend is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.”
- “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.” (So true! Definitely one of my favorite “The Alchemist” quotes)
- “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.”
- “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.
- “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.”
- “We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
- “People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
The Alchemist Quotes That’ll Transform Your Life
- “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.”
- “Sometimes there’s just no way to hold back the river.”
- “Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”
- “We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling, and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “You must always know what it is that you want.”
- “I’m like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”
- “when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.”
Spiritual “The Alchemist” Quotes
- “Dreams are the language of God.”
- “Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”
- “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.”
- “It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.”
- “God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.”
- “I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.”
- “God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.”
- ““Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.”
- “Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.”
- “Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”
- “To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.”
Quotes About Love From The Book
- “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
- “Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.”
- “Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”
- “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.”
- “There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words.”
- “If I am really a part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.”
There you have it! 60 “The Alchemist” quotes that I hope will provide you with some inspiration and courage! Life is too short to be living out other people’s dreams. If you want to start a business, do it! If you want to start a YouTube channel, do it!
I’m gonna leave you with another one of my personal favorite quotes by Oscar Wilde: “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Make your life sensational! Because… why not?
xoxo,
Jamila❤
