Quotes About Transmute

#1. If you have a deep inclination to transmute harm into help and be of benefit to others, whether they live next door or on the other side of the world, you will eventually be connected with the sources of energy and information that will assist your effort.

Doug "Ten" Rose

#2. He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know.

Neil Gaiman

#3. The celibate must firmly keep himself in Brahma Charya (i.e. chastity) until his wife arrives, he has to firmly establish himself in Brahma Charya and it is not possible to remain in Brahma Charya if we do not know how to transmute the sexual energy.

Samael Aun Weor

#4. I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

Conrad Black

#5. Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. [The fine structure constant] ... defines how firmly atomic nuclei bind together and how all the atoms on Earth were made. Its value controls the power from the Sun and, more sensitively, how stars transmute hydrogen into all the atoms of the periodic table.

Martin J. Rees

#7. Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Napoleon Hill

#8. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

E. M. Forster

#9. For Pol Pot, as for every other kamikaze of Kingdom Come, "the goal was not to destroy but to transmute." We have heard this chiliastic tommyrot before, from a variety of faith-based ethnic cleansers forever seeking to transmute the rest of us to death.

John Leonard

#10. Let emotions happen naturally. If we try to control them they will never be released and will stick with us like a shadow. But if we can observe them with no judgement, no labels and when we do label them because it's difficult transmute them into positive creativity.

Matthew Donnelly

#11. It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

Adoniram Judson Gordon

#12. The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Eckhart Tolle

#14. 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

#15. Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which keeps a man on his feet with his face to the wind. It is the virtue which can transmute the hardest trial into glory because beyond the pain it sees the goal.

Anonymous

#16. The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

El Lissitzky

#17. We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the worlds corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long away from heaven, away from joy.

Marianne Williamson

#18. You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.

Donald Johanson

#19. Through repetition of this procedure, you voluntarily create thought habits which are favorable to your efforts to transmute desire into its monetary equivalent.

Napoleon Hill

#20. Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#21. So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

Bertrand Russell

#22. Hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, "Cthulhu fhtagn".

H.P. Lovecraft

#23. Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

William George Jordan

#24. It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.

Samael Aun Weor

#25. It is a distinctive American genius, this ability to transmute subversion into a marketable commodity.

George F. Will

#26. The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate in rituals which transmute life itself to a series of grand gestures, as moving as they are absurd.

Angela Carter

#27. Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#28. The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

Henry Miller

#29. everything you touch will begin to transmute itself into an asset for your benefit.

Napoleon Hill

#30. The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.

Richard Rohr

#31. You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

Antony Flew

#32. One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.

Joe Hill

#33. If you find yourself focusing on negative scenarios, ask us angels to transmute this fearful energy into love.

Doreen Virtue

#34. Buddhist discipline is designed to transmute trishna, or egoic narcissism, into Karuna, Divine Narcissism; that is, to transmute self-love, which excludes love of others, into Self-love, which is love of others.

Ken Wilber

#35. 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

#36. Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

Conrad Aiken

#37. It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

E. M. Forster

#38. Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic ...

John Geddes

#39. The void holds a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that void is filled with a form of power/energy which adapts itself to the nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and influences us, in natural ways, to transmute our thoughts into their physical equivalent.

Napoleon Hill

#40. A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

Margaret Atwood

#41. O deaf and mute
and blind and beautiful and interminable rose
who into time, attar and verse transmute

Cecilia Meireles

#42. There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Suzanne La Follette

#43. We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

Chogyam Trungpa

#44. 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

#45. All things, my son, transmute
into old age, life diminishes,
everything declines,
the proliferation/ of kinds is a mere
illusion, and no one
knows to what end.

W.G. Sebald

#46. Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Barbara Deming

#47. There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

Eric Hoffer

#48. There's no matter here you can't re-matter into love.

Laurie Perez

#49. Thank you, Edward. You really are special. Being able to create something so wonderful ... But it's too bad ...
... You couldn't put me back together too.
Trisha Elric

Hiromu Arakawa