#alchemist

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard. ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #bunch #fun #great #magicians

When I, who is called a "weapon" or a "monster", fight a real monster, I can fully realize that I am just a "human". ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#fullmetal-alchemist #psychological #roy-mustang #psychology

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#alternative #argument #because #could #examine

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#insistence #inspirational #quote #the-alchemist #treasure

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #romance #the-alchemist #dreams

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#bent #claimed #deceived #dupes #men

All right people, listen up! If you've got a family back home waiting for you or if you just want to save your own skin, turn around and walk away. Also, women! I have no intention of fighting any women! ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#greed #humor #family

Do you believe people can change their fate, or do you think our lives are mapped out before us? I mean, do you think we're each doomed to die a certain death? ↗

— Joanne Owen

#the-alchemist-and-the-angel #change

But history has been adapted here, re-spun to tell Jan's tale: the story of a boy caught up in a world of change and opportunity, trickery and wonder. A story inspired by a city and its legends. ↗

— Joanne Owen

#the-alchemist-and-the-angel #change