“To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
“In the land of contrasts, the man who sees the similarities is king of his soul. In the land of similarities, the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Everything I do is alchemy. That's why I believe in magic. Not black magic, not the satanic magic that they practice in… — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“...the world is only the visible aspect of God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Like Eschenbach's stone, the Chintamani Stone is, apparently, also green in color, since Roerich is on record as also stating that the… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Alchemy is the name of this temple of images. Here a towering wall of video flashes glamorous vamps and alien androgynes over… — Karen D. Best Copy Share Image
Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it. The good is least… — Paracelsus Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Copy Share Image
“For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“By projecting his psyche into the stone he gave the stone life, identity, consciousness, doing what the alchemists did as they gazed… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Air is the element most needed by fire. This is why you need open spaces, the wind, and to fly. Because you… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“Alchemy, however, is a chaste prostitute, who has many lovers but disappoints all and grants her favors to none. She transforms the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?" I asked. We are going to experiment ,… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“As though eavesdropping, the whistling wind refuses to speak above a whisper. The winding road is cut into the side of the… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“Whoever swallows that elixir will never be sick again, and a fragment from that stone turns any metal into gold.” The Arabs… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Alchemy is the “art of transformation.” • We all have a vibrational set point – one we can raise with intention and… — Michelle Martin Dobbins Copy Share Image
“It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is… — Naomi janowitz Copy Share Image
“Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When the alchemist speaks of Mercurius, on the face of it he means quicksilver (mercury), but inwardly he means the world-creating spirit… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“But truly, the Autumn Provinces provide the most ideal situation for our program. Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“She pushed the book towards them, and Harry and Ron read: The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher's… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image