Quotes About Gold In The Alchemist

#1. 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.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Like an alchemist, he had taken something dark and painful, and he'd transmuted it into gold. In doing so, he'd created a new reality within himself, a new understanding and a bridge - a bridge to Michael.

Eli Easton

#3. It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.

Bruce Vilanch

#4. You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

William Shakespeare

#5. And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?"
"They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.

Alan Tudyk

#7. Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Matt Taibbi

#8. Who make not friends with sinful, lives not away from hope futilely,
Who outrages not another's wife and betrays not arrogance surely;
Who never commits any theft or never shows ingratitude certainly,
And never indulges in drinking is a person who is always happy.
[99] - 33 Mahatma Vidur

Munindra Misra

#9. The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice
Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute.

Omar Khayyam

#10. I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

Halston Sage

#11. Indeed, I am as skilled as any alchemist, but instead of turning lead into gold, I turn my fear into daring, and assuredly that is a far greater trick.

Robin LaFevers

#12. The English language is the one thing the Commonwealth still has in common.

Niall Ferguson

#13. The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#14. Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

Henry Fairlie

#15. O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

John Milton

#16. Holy cow." Rene blew out a long, slow whistle and pressed a hand to her chest. "That man is enough to give a girl heart palpitations.

Cat Johnson

#17. Ford! Sadie shouted sharply.
His eyes snapped open and he called "Present!" like a student waking up in class.
It had worked. It had worked. Sadie laughed, and he started to laugh too and mutter, "Present!

Michele Jaffe

#18. 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.

Paulo Coelho

#19. 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.

Will Smith

#20. i knew his heart
was yours
but i wanted
to become
an alchemist
to make gold
of the pieces
i received
because
all i ever felt
was the dark side
of his leaded heart.

K.Y. Robinson

#21. 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

#22. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

Allan Bloom

#23. 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

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

Anais Nin

#25. While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot to rock

Agona Apell

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

William Morley Punshon

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

Eckhart Tolle

#28. Fear is only the enemy if you let it keep you from moving forward.

Put fear on your side and let it motivate you.

This is the definition of an alchemist. To turn base metal into gold. Fear into Motivation.

Matthew Donnelly

#29. We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.

Gary Zukav

#30. The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

Matthew McConaughey