The Alchemist is written by Paulo Coelho in 1988. It launched him as an international bestselling author. Since then, the Alchemist has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 56 languages.
Who is the Alchemist and why has he named this way? The Alchemist is a young boy called Santiago from Andalusia. He was in search of realizing his recurring dream. He dreamt of someone telling him to go to the Egyptian pyramids and find a hidden treasure. Santiago goes through a beautiful yet very demanding journey. He met many wise companions who taught him significant lessons. “You already know about alchemy. It is about penetrating to the Soul of the World and discovering the treasure that has been reserved for you.” In terms of the novel, alchemist is called that person who is trying to achieve his dream or as the author says: to find his Personal Legend.
Did his dream lie to him? Was there really a treasure that would make him rich? Well, you must read the book to uncover what really happened to Santiago. Nevertheless, I want to reveal to you some of the most wonderful quotes/passages, from the well- known novel, you should bear in mind.
The boy didn’t know what a person’s ‘Personal Legend’ was. “It’s what you have always wanted to accomplish… because there is one great truth on this planet: 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.”
“When you want something, all the Universe conspires in helping you achieve it,” the old king had said. People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
The boy felt jealous of the freedom of the wind and saw that he could have the same freedom. There was nothing to hold him back except himself.
We must take advantage when luck is on our side and do as much to help it as it’s doing to help us.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
The sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time 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.
And when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
But there was one idea that seemed to repeat itself throughout all the books: all things are the manifestation of one thing only.
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.
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love…
His heart began to tell him things that came from the Soul of the World. It said that all people who are happy have God within them. And that happiness could be found in a grain of sand from the desert, as the alchemist had said. Because a grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the Universe has taken millions of years to create it. “Everyone on Earth has a treasure that awaits him,” his heart said.
Most people see the world as a threating place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threating place.
What you still need to know is this: 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.’
The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Usually, the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.
And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.
"You have already lost your savings twice. One proverb says, ‘Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.’"
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