The best Quotes from The Alchemist

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

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

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

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes.

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

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

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

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

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.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

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.

Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

One day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

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

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

Don't be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

It is not the strong or the smart that survive, but the ones who can bring about change.

For the same wind that seeks to blow out a fire may also cause its spread.

Eternal sunshine creates deserts.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The only time that we are allowed to look down upon others: when we are offering to help them up.

Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them!

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.