You came so that you could learn about your dream,” said the old woman. “And dreams are the language of God.
In the long run, what people think about sheperds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.
If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So it’s not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds.
...the world is only the visible aspect of God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material plane.
Estudió latín, español y teología. pero desde niño deseaba conocer el mundo y esto era más importante que conocer a Dios y a los pecados de los hombres.
So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)
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.
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.
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.
It's the oasis," said the camel driver. "Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked. "Because we have to sleep.
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.
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.
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.
Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become a part of everything... they become the Soul of the World.
