Quotes from Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death.

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

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

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

… "That 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." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

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

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.

For her, every day was the same, and 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.

Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you´ll find your treasure

that's why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream.

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.