Alchemist Quotes - Page 6

• The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Glasses, Pharaohs, Stones

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• 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)

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Blood, Rivers, Generations

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• Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

  Paulo Coelho

  Forget, Deals, One Thing

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

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• Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish.

  Neal Stephenson

  Art, Technology, Civilization

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• When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Heart, Want Something

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

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• The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Miracle, Soul

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

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• As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Thinking, Thieves

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

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• The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Spring, Healing, Winter

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• You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

  William Shakespeare

  Gold, Alchemy

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.214, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Real, People, Envy

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Learning, Way

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1993.

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• If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Personal Legend, Happy Man

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

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• What about you, Sage? I know we don't have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist spa this weekend?

  Richelle Mead

  Fun, Weekend, Worry

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.38, Penguin

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• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual

  William Butler Yeats, Ulick O'Connor (1990). “The Yeats companion”, Pavilion Books

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• Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Artist, Today

  Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (1985). “The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton”, p.379, New Directions Publishing

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• I want you by my side. Forever. (Full Metal Alchemist)

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Forever, Want, Sides

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• Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

  Paulo Coelho

  Destiny, Interfere, Alchemist Love

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• Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a girl. I am a magician! Did you never think, even once, that I loved lipstick and rouge for more than their color alone? I am a student of their lore, and it is arcane and hermetic beyond the dreams of alchemists. Did you never wonder why I gave you so many pots, so many creams, so much perfume?

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Dream, Thinking

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.143, Macmillan

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• Your eyes show the strength of your soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiring, Eye, Soul

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• Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Love Is, Poison

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.195

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• My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Suffering, My Heart

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• You must always know what it is that you want.

  Paulo Coelho

  Personal Legend, Want, Oleanders

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

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• People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Powerful, People

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 31, 2009

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• The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

  Pharrell Williams

  Baby, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Heart, Understanding

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

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