Best 125 quotes in «alchemist quotes» category

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

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny

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.

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

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.

Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex.

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.

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.

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

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 on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

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

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

life is the moment we're living right now.

Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.