Alchemist Quotes - Page 3

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

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

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.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

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

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.

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

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.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

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.

Well...what did you promise exactly? Not to tell anyone that Eric Dragomir had a mistress and baby?" Sonya nodded. "And not to tell who they were?" Sonya nodded again. Sydney gave Sonya the warmest, friendliest smile i'd ever seen on the Alchemist. "Did you promise not to tell anyone where they are?" Sonya nodded, and Sydney's smile faltered a little. Then her eyes lit up. "Did you promise not to LEAD anyone to where they are?

Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging out in West Virginia together.” “No,” I said. “No?” “We’re, uh, not in West Virginia.

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

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

You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

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.

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

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny

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

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.

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