Alchemy Quotes

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

  Julia Cameron

  Wise, Art, Essence

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

  Anais Nin

  Gold, Ordinary, Teach

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• Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.

  Jillian Michaels

  Loss, Ideas, Two

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I think at some level, it's just alchemy that we, as writers, can't explain when we write the characters. I don't set out to create the characters - they're not, to me, collections of quirks that I can put together. I discover the characters, instead. I usually go through a standard set of interview questions with the character in the beginning and ask the vital stuff: What's important to you? What do you love? Hate? Fear? .. and then I know where to start. But the characters just grow on their own, at a certain point. And start surprising me.

  Rachel Caine

  Hate, Writing, Character

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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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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• For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

  John Donne

  Love, Art, Darkness

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.

  Georg Ernst Stahl

  Art, Science, Body

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• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  Paracelsus

  Process, Founders

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

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• Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

  Paracelsus

  Past, Judgement, Should

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• Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

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• Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Strong, Believe, Men

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