Alchemist Quotes

• 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

  Motivational, People, World

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Powerful, Soul, Coaching

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

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• My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s 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

  God, Dream, Heart

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

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• Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Inspirational, Dream, Eye

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• 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

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Secret

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 30, 2011

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• There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 08, 2014

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 10, 2014

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• 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

  Life, Journey, Dancing

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 20, 2017

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• The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 06, 2014

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• "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."

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Play, Gold

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1993.

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• When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Moving On, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 26, 2014

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 03, 2014

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• Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Gold

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.218, New World Library

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• The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Understanding, Soul

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

  Stars, Boys, Thinking

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 14, 2016

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• I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

  Paulo Coelho

  Treasure, Adventurer

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fire, Vanity, Years

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

  Paulo Coelho

  Encouraging, Courage, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2012

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• Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer." From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, Boys

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• I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophical, Views, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• 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

  Love, Powerful, Pregnancy

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 30, 2016

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• 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

  Stars, Ocean, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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