Transmutes Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which,…
— George Gissing
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How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome…
— James Thomas Fields
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Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about…
— Victor LaValle
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The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.
— Hugh Kingsmill
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Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.
— James Thomas Fields
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Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes,…
— Dan Beachy-Quick
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Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
— William Wordsworth
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The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.
— Teju Cole
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Just try to love, and manifest it. When your heart is open, there is this energy of love that flows in, fulfills everything and somehow…
— Paulo Coelho
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As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we…
— Victor Hugo
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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…
— George Jean Nathan
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I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite…
— Lewis Nkosi
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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of…
— William Osler
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The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side - there where territories tremble, where the structures…
— Gilles Deleuze
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Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
— William George Jordan
Who Wrote These Transmutes Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Transmutes Quotes as follows: