"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence"
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"I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold."
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"Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist."
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"God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered."
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"Don't think about what you've left behind."
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"to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world."
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"The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other"
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"The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain"
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"We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here."
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"Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve."
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"This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time."
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"The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being."
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"Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success"
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"The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style."
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