The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.

Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s 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.

Well, by accepting that sex is a physical manifestation of God, and that is not a sin-it is a blessing.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.