Alchemist Quotes - Page 5

• Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

  Paulo Coelho

  Luck, Beginners, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2014

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• To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Destiny, Realizing

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

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• To obtain something, something of equal value must be given.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Anime, Fma, Lost

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood", 2009-2010.

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• The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

  Paulo Coelho

  Wind, Desert, Our Love

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• The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Vocabulary, Names, Psychology

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• No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

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

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• We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Luck, Sides, Helping

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

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• King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Kings, Philosophical, Men

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• A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

  George Jean Nathan

  Dog, Stars, Spring

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Science, Technology, Century

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• If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Motivational, Business

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

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• People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Want Something, Interesting

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• When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city... without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Believe, Cities

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• It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

  Cyril Connolly

  Believe, Beer, Over You

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• Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Soul

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

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• We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

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• Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Valentines Day, Inspiring Love, Personal Legend

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

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Destiny, Way, Mines

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• Why does it have to be so cut-and-dried? In your view, I either have to hate them or be in league with them. There’s a middle ground, you know. I can still be loyal to the Alchemists and on friendly terms with vampires and dhampirs.

  Richelle Mead

  Hate, Cutting, Views

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.217, Penguin

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• A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own...you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Pain, Heart, Sacrifice

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• The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

  Paulo Coelho

  Responsibility, Oil, Secret

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 05, 2014

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• When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Trying, Personal Legend, Treasure

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

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• life is the moment we're living right now.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Living Right, Personal Legend

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

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• In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Atheist, People

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, 2006.

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• I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ignorance, World, Doe

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

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