Alchemy Quote by George Meredith Download Open image “See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?” — George Meredith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alchemy Courtesy Curiosity Gold Trying
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird… — Bill Haywood Copy Share Image
“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Set any one to talk about himself, instead of about other people, and you will have a seam of the precious mental metal opened… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That's what alchemists do. They… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share
Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Opinions differ on the details, but most serious students today recognize that alchemy was, and is, a spiritual pursuit, and that whether or not… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?" "They were looking only for gold his… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields! — George Meredith Copy Share
I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You must learn to bend to open windows, my friend. That is why artists and dancers are closest to God. They clench their chests… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy. — Billy Corgan Copy Share
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Arya Maloney updates the basis and practice of transpersonal psychology by using the spiritual principles of India's masters and the transformational alchemy inherent in… — Arnold Mindell Copy Share Image
“To follow our bliss and dive deeply into the mysteries of fragrance, color, and taste; blend with the magnificent diversity of mother nature; and… — Prana Gogia Copy Share Image
I want to explain the new alchemy [in the "From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time"], which… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft can be master of an element. I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup. I learned to watch, to put my… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image