Alchemy Quotes

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

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Anime, Alchemist, Fma

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

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• You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

  William Shakespeare

  Alchemist, Gold

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

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• Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is.
  Just go on becoming more and more aware
  you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension.
  It will bring great fulfilment

  Rajneesh

  Life Changing, Meditation, Goes On

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• True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Memories, Lying, Creative

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• "This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Play, Alchemist

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

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• At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

  Julia Cameron

  Wise, Art, Essence

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• I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is.

  Paulo Coelho

  Collective Unconscious, Space, Soul

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• Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Blessing, Keys

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.18, Hazelden Publishing

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• There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Happiness, Hope, Joy

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.

  Oliver DeMille

  Art, Hard Work, Fire

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• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  Paracelsus

  Lying, Medicine, Gold

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• The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Art, Kindness

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• Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

  Karen Armstrong

  Life, Change, Truth

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• Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

  Paracelsus

  Philosophy, Medicine, Four

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.59, Princeton University Press

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• Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychics, Mind, Matter

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• Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Anime, Law, Giving

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• This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

  Paracelsus

  Medicine, Office, Chemist

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.93, Princeton University Press

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• The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Emotional, Editing, Essence

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• What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  Edith Hamilton

  Pain, Writing, Tragedy

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Kitchen, Ingredients, Chef

  "Magic Moments in Life" By Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

  Anais Nin

  Gold, Ordinary, Teach

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• You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

  Shawn Ryan

  People, Watches, Needs

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• As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

  Bill Vaughan

  Glasses, Liquid, Lasts

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• The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Secret, Gold

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.581, Delphi Classics

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