Quotes from Alchemy of Souls

To protect what we must, one must sometimes choose to let go of everything.

Jang Uk: "Are you hurt?"
Jang Gang: "Yes, I am hurt. I am damaged to the very depths of my heart."

You cannot grasp water but it is inside the soil. You cannot touch fire but it is inside the tree. You cannot hold the wind but it is resting on the rock. If you let them be, they will exist everywhere. The faint, blue light makes me sigh. My white breath turned into snow and tears. I could not let them drop and hid them, despite knowing that they will fill up once again. I am a fool who dares not shed a single tear.

Overflowing power means you will not be able to control how much of it you use. Desire rain and you will get a flood. Desire wind and you will get a typhoon.

You cannot judge what is right or wrong merely based on the things you see. There are stories to everything.

The heart is the most important. If you are in love, appearances do not matter.

All the pain that does not kill you will only make you stronger.

Kid: "Does that mean that person becomes powerful?"
Master Lee: "That means it is a good thing. Well, I would not say it is necessarily always a good thing. With great power comes responsibility."
Kid: "What are responsibilities?"
Master Lee: "It means you must also do things you do not wish to do, which can be very distressing and lonely."

Fighting is like a game of tug-of-war. Your opponent will pull if you feign letting your guard down. That is when you should strike.

Do not rush yourself. One day, you will feel the same feeling that you feel when a fish bites into a hook.

A truly skilled individual attacks when their enemy least expects it.

If there is nothing to reflect, a mirror becomes useless.

That is exactly why things that taste sweet are dangerous. Once you have a taste of it, you desire it at all costs. You fail to distinguish what you can have and what you cannot.

If you try to hold on, people let go. If you let go, people try to hold on.

I saw there is pure sadness in loss. Lately I am starting to understand why people feel sad when they see a river running, a season passing, and a sun setting.

I witnessed how the desire to win that power made people violent and evil. It is only right not to awaken the ice stone's power.

Is he trying to run before learning to walk?

Do not put everything on the line for something as fickle as love. If something like this ever happens again, and you find yourself in a life or death situation, give up on love and choose your life!

Let us say goodbye to each other while these three breaths last.

If I am not willing to do anything, I might as well just die.

The star will appear soon. Then those leaving shall leave, and those returning shall return.

I should get injured as much as I can, as much as my master expects of me.

All my life, no one ever seemed to know how desperate I was. No one has ever risked their lives for me like you did.

What is the point of unsheathing the sword when you cannot even hold it?

It took us over ten years to finally grasp this energy. But there are those who can do that from birth. Simply put, they are geniuses. But to the world, they seem reckless, unreliable, and even dangerous at times. That is because they are different from the rest of us.

They call me Naksu. For wherever I go, heads fall to the ground. A beautiful name, is it not?

Right now, it may seem insignificant but your energy will soon add up and your energy will be as awe-inspiring as Lake Gyeongcheondaeho.