Alchemist Quotes - Page 6

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

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Forever, Want, Sides

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Why does it have to be so cut-and-dried? In your view, I either have to hate them or be in league with them. There’s a middle ground, you know. I can still be loyal to the Alchemists and on friendly terms with vampires and dhampirs.

  Richelle Mead

  Hate, Cutting, Views

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.217, Penguin

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Destiny, Way, Mines

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• The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other

  Paulo Coelho

  Wind, Desert, Our Love

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

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Anime, Fma, Lost

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

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• God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

  Paulo Coelho

  Path, Omen, Prepared

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

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• The Alchemists’ beliefs are my beliefs,” I say quickly. She arched an eyebrow. “Are they? I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs.” I’d never thought about it that way before, but I suddenly hoped desperately that her words were true.

  Richelle Mead

  Eyebrows, Would Be, Way

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• What were you thinking?" I demanded once we were moving to the music. I was trying to ignore his hands. "Do you know how much trouble you may have gotten me in?" Adrian grinned. "Nah. They all feel bad for you. You'll achieve martyrdom after dancing with a mean, wicked vampire. Job security with the Alchemists.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Moving, Mean

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.33, Penguin

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• Stand up and walk. Keep moving forward. You've got two good legs. So get up and use them. You're strong enough to make your own path.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Strong, Moving, Two

  "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood". TV Series, 2009 - 2010.

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• We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Luck, Sides, Helping

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

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Valentines Day, Inspiring Love, Personal Legend

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

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• Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Soul

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

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• It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

  Cyril Connolly

  Believe, Beer, Over You

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Suffering, My Heart

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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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• ...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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• When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

  Paulo Coelho

  Alchemist Love

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