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.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.

All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime, in the long battle I’d just signed on for to right the wrongs in the Alchemist and Moroi worlds. Maybe Marcus was right that I’d also signed myself up for disaster, but I didn’t care. In that moment, it seemed that as long as Adrian and I were together, there was no challenge too great for us.

"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."

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend.

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

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

You must always know what it is that you want.

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

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)

There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

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.

When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists.

We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

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

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

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

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.

[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

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.