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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!

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

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

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

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

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.

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.