Best 125 quotes in «alchemist quotes» category

There are no perfect circumstances, just circumstances that can become 'perfect' because you choose to act upon a platform. Trusting that the first brush stroke is one closer to the finished painting. You can alter as you work. But you must take that first step, regardless of how good the shoes are - that first step forward is one closer to the finish line that you’re dreaming up. OR: There is a set of circumstances viewed by the perfectionist as imperfect, leading to hindrance. The shoes aren’t right for the race so they hesitate. Know this, you are the alchemist. You have the capacity to turn any situation into your personal victory, into gold, if you choose. What do you want to sculpt? It’s clay, it’s not meant to be perfect but your touch can turn it into a masterpiece.

Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?

The world speaks many languages, the boy thought

We are all alchemists with amnesia.

When people consult me,it's not that I'm reading the future;I am guessing at the future.The future belongs to God,and it is only he who reveals it,under extraordinary circumstances.How do I guess at the future?Based on the omens of the present.The secret is here in the present.If you pay attention to the present,you can improve upon it. -gypsy

What can I tell you about the alchemy of twins? Twins are two bodies that dance to each other’s joy. Two minds that drown in each other’s despair. Two spirits that fly with each other’s love. Twins are two separate beings conjoined at the heart!

We are master alchemists: We may not have discovered how to make gold out of lead, but we are able to make heaven out of hell, hell out of heaven, and purgatory out of nothing.

When you want something with all of your heart, the universe conspires to helping you achieve it - The Alchemist

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot to rock

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime, in the long battle I’d just signed on for to right the wrongs in the Alchemist and Moroi worlds. Maybe Marcus was right that I’d also signed myself up for disaster, but I didn’t care. In that moment, it seemed that as long as Adrian and I were together, there was no challenge too great for us.

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

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.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

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

Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.

Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex.

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

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.

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.

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it

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

I had to be the next family Alchemist. My sister... well, she's older, and usually it's the oldest kid who has to do the job. But, she's kind of... worthless. -Sydney to Rose

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

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

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.