Change happens for youth moment you want something more than you fear it.

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

Death is the midwife of very great things.... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.

— Paracelsus

Despite the experiences that put me in the spotlight as the co-creator of my wisdom, the human part of me keeps burning, like an alchemical process that I both accept and want to refuse. You see, it's hard when I notice women falling in love with me, and then destroying everything at the same time. And so, I'm changing the world as much as this world is changing me. The two things are inseparable.

— Robin Sacredfire

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

— Jim Butcher

Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.

— Jake Ducey

He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the first tiny bubble of fermenting yeast, in which was contained an inevitable, alchemical transformation.

— J.K. Rowling

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.

— Tom Althouse

If your curiosity reaches a breaking point (compelled actually means that you only have the remaining choice to act on it, having tried all the other options before), and becomes fascination with mystery or truth, you find what you need. Maybe it’s a person, maybe it’s a tragedy, maybe it’s an explosive recognition that, “My God, I’m still alive.

— Darrell Calkins