Quotes About Metamorphosis

E]ven through our limitations, we evolve rather than fail, the way a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis becomes a butterfly, and the succession of life's trials is precisely the unfolding we need to find our bliss and rightful place in the order of things.

Kathleen is truly and utterly and completely Kathleen in New York. That's what the city does for you if it's meant for you.

In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being.

There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable metamorphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the infant plant while it climbs towards the Sun.

Perhaps someday they would grow as dragons.

Change layover the stairs and the kitchen and the garden like fog.

In those days we saw every sort of object as though it were one of those tiny handkerchiefs from which a conjuror can produce silk scarfs, streamers, flags, and yards of ribbon. A cup of coffee became a kaleidoscope in which we could spend ages watching the mutable reflections of ceiling or chandelier.

Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps it may in turn so entirely forget it was a butterfly that is becomes a fish.

There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state.

I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.

... the first step to eternal live is you have to die.

Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.

No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!

It's three words "Alter your life" which mean change your life. It's not so easy, but it's not so hard everyone can do it.

Transform soul, change spirit.

Sitting by the windowI was thinkingWhat changed so fastlyMe or the city...

...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

A couple of words is all it'll take to make everything in my life Before and After.

Transformation begins in the darkness of your unconscious with the notion of something you can become.

That was the river, this is the sea.

Everything changed...even the things we didn't want to.

Spirits, when they please,Can either sex assume, or both.