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.
Don't think about what you've left behind.
A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.
Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.
If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims. ' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.
Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.
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.
The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.
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?
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.
In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches. . . not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
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?
A king is no king without his people, but a people without their king would be lost as well. Lan Fan (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)
When I, who is called a "weapon" or a "monster", fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a "human".