Quotes About Transformation

And what is magic after all but a man's power to change the world while it is incapable of changing him? (Aubrey)

Is love the ultimate illusion? Or is it what it seems to be -- the greatest transformation of all? (Glyrenden)

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

That love is a comfort to me. I know that the balm it now offers as I feel the wound of his loss will stay with me and transform this grief into something else.

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

However, these communities were also subject to the infusion of the world around them and their notion of tradition became altered in the very act of dissimulation. They 'falsely' believed they were protecting something old when, in fact, they were creating something new.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

When there is an agreement between heaven and earth, everything shifts toward godliness.

When John came back from this experience, I am sure it changed the way he saw everyone and everything. He could probably no longer see with any value the weakness of individuals or the politics in the church. He was now seeing everyone with a full invitation to be that bride.

The event had not even existed until I'd heard the story. It happened this way for each of us, one by one, across the island, a structure suddenly exploding onto the placid empty plain of our history.

Since they believed that this revolutionary transformation was in the long-term interests of the people, they were willing to force it through, even when, as with collectivization, a majority of the relevant population clearly opposed it. They explained popular resistance as a result of the backwardness, prejudices, and fears of the unenlightened masses.

Life has become better, comrades; life has become more cheerful."       Stalin, 19353

I'd never before wanted to uncover all the molecules of shit that were such a part of my deepest being which, once released, would smell forever of the shit that I was, and which nothing--not exile, not fame, could ever disappear. But I threw the shit and the trash and the sand, and for years and years I just threw it. And I began to light up my soul with scenes. I made what I could with what I had. And I finally became a real girl.

She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself transformed itself into into a different room, and trapped you in it without them.

She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself transformed into a different room, and trapped you in it without them.

She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself transformed itself into a different room, and trapped you in it without them. Sheila Heti

She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself transformed itself into a different room, and trapped you in it without them.

From dreams reality is born.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Only those that wandered in the darkness truly revel in the light

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

The problem is that this "place" is in the past. And it does no good to adapt to a past that is only an echo now. There is no refuge there.