Alchemist Quotes

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

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

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

Thanks to the central bank, most "monetary experts" and "leading macro-economists" can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists "explaining," like alchemists, how stones (paper) can be turned into bread (wealth).

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

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

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

The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.

The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.

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.

We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

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

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

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.

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist

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

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

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

"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."

Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.

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

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