Alchemist Quotes - Page 3

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 25, 2014

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Giving Up, People

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• People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Success

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

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• We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.

  Rumi

  Looks, Heat, Talent

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Not Here”

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• Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Fear, Heart

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 31, 2014

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• making a decision was only the beginning of things. 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Strong

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

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• What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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

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• The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Boys, People

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

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  The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Writing, Kids

  William H. Gass (2010). “A Temple of Texts”, p.37, Knopf Group E-Books

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Personal Legend, Want, Legends

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

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• Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, People

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

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• Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Moving, Stronger, Analysis

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• Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, War, Passion

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

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Said, Alchemist Love

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

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• 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. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, Thinking

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

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• For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

  Carl Jung

  Sleep, Men, Needs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Fordham (1970). “Psychology and alchemy”, Bollingen

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Want Something, Soul, Desire

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, People

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

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• Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

  Primo Levi

  Ideas, Gold, West

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• People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Fear

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

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Wanted, Alchemist Book, Accustomed

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

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• People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Teaching, Men

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

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Soul, Personal Legend

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Harper Collins

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