Paulo Coelho Alchemist Quotations

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

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

Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.

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

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

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.

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

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.

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.

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.

Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny

You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

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

The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's 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. 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 Personal Legend.

The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

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

Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.

If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny

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.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

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

The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.

Eat when it's time to eat. And move along when it's time to move along.

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

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

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. 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.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

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.

You must always know what it is that you want.

If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

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

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

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." -- The Alchemist

life is the moment we're living right now.

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action.

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

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

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

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.

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

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

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.