The Alchemist Chapter 1 Quotes & Sayings

One thing you should know.
This world - Paradise - isn't Earth.
It wasn't Earth. It won't ever be Earth.
It is no alternate Earth.
All else is possible.... — Victor Milan

We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals. — Milan Kundera

Don't live up to your stereotypes. — Sherman Alexie

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit. — Ambrose Bierce

A beautiful smile is the prettiest ornament that you can find.
Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind. — Debasish Mridha

Obviously, there's no way of making money that doesn't hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn't generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn't function if that were the case. — K.J. Parker

There was a time when his father had looked like gold to him. Many of his seniors had looked like gold. Anybody who had attained a certain high level of education had looked like gold. Therefore, his own gold plating had been all the more painful, and he had been impatient to become solid gold himself. But once his keen eye penetrated directly to the inner layers of these other people, his efforts suddenly came to seem foolish. — Soseki Natsume

We would rather admit our moral errors, mistakes and crimes than our scientific errors. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. — Norman Mailer

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men. — Josephine Tey