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  • A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well. Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood) -- Hiromu Arakawa
  • 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
  • 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 -- Paulo Coelho
  • Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. -- Paulo Coelho
  • I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure -- Paulo Coelho
  • I want you by my side. Forever. (Full Metal Alchemist) -- Hiromu Arakawa
  • I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov. -- Richelle Mead
  • Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. -- Paulo Coelho
  • The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. -- William H. Gass
  • If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence -- Paulo Coelho
  • The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams. -- Hiromu Arakawa
  • When you want something, all the Universe conspires to helping you achieve it. -- The Alchemist, Paulo CoelhoJust ask -- Victoria Aldridge Washuk
  • It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is. -- Paulo Coelho
  • I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. -- Paulo Coelho
  • 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. -- Samael Aun Weor
  • 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. -- Omar Khayyam
  • [Thinking about his first day if he were the Fuhrer] "On that day, all female officers will be required to wear... tiny miniskirts!" [Strikes pose] Roy Mustang, The Flame Alchemist, Full metal Alchemist -- Hiromu Arakawa
  • So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist) -- Hiromu Arakawa
  • 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 -- Richelle Mead
  • 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. -- Richelle Mead
  • We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. -- Paulo Coelho
  • The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves. -- Paulo Coelho
  • The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold. -- Catherine Marshall
  • 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. -- Paulo Coelho
  • All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple further out and the joy of distances and the roar of falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't come out of the sea for all of us. -- John Cheever
  • The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the king wanted to be richer. -- Fred Alan Wolf
  • Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return. -- Paulo Coelho
  • My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity. -- Paulo Coelho
  • In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs. -- Sam Harris
  • You are an alchemist; make gold of that. -- William Shakespeare
  • Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • You are an alchemist who can turn six beers into an awkward three week relationship. -- Eugene Mirman
  • Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold. -- William Morley Punshon
  • A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion. -- Kim Edwards
  • Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. -- Thomas Merton
  • The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love. -- Anais Nin
  • For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. -- Carl Jung
  • The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain -- Muhammad Iqbal
  • 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. -- Paul Gambaccini
  • 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. -- Savielly Tartakower
  • 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. -- Alanis Morissette
  • In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play. -- August Wilson
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