Quotes About Metamorphosis

Nothing exists forever in one shape or another. You say existence – you say transformation, evolution and regress.

What the hell is he? Ace dodged another swing and countered by kicking his opponent in the chest hard enough that he snapped a rib bone. The rogue didn't flinch. Studying the male, Ace had no idea what to make of him. Derrick, one of his team members, was African American. When changed, his skin took on a darker brown than his original shade. Ace had Native American ancestry, and when changed, looked more copper than brown. This creature… What the hell turned black? -Ace's thoughts

The fire died, its spirit creeping into the realm nearby.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

Who you are, who you were, and who you will become are 3 completely different people.

Some changes happen deep inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.

You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.

All things must change To something new, to something strange.

mírame pronto antes que en un descuido me vuelva otro

Pero nunca será. Tú no eres ésa, yo no soy ése, ésos, los que fuimos antes de ser nosotros. Eras sí pero ahora suenas un poco a mí. Era sí pero ahora vengo un poco de ti.

La mariposa recordará por siempre que fue gusano

Pero nunca será. Tú no eres ésa, yo no soy ése, ésos, los que fuimos antes de ser nosotros. Eras sí pero ahora suenas un poco a mí. Era sí pero ahora vengo un poco de ti. No demasiado, solamente

Soon, the two of them would leave this spot. . . walk into the house and into a whole changed world. . .

When it happens— the great sea change, the alteration of one's life into something rich and strange— when it singles one out, one is always lucky, lucky automatically. I'm talking about transformation, and the transformation I'm talking about is always a gift. A blessing.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau

The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

Nothing will ever be the same.