"Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes……" — William George Jordan
"Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys."
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22 Quotes by William George Jordan
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Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
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Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
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We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the…
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He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his…
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Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler…
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The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is…
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If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the…
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Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the…
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Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each…
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Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
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Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege,…
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Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of…
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Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with…
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I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and…
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If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that…
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Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
— Georg Ernst Stahl
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Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
— Richard Dawkins
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on…
— Eric Hoffer
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
— David Morrell
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely…
— Djuna Barnes
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the…
— Edith Hamilton
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their…
— Horace Mann
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