Quotes About Transformation

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

For you to be free of your thinking mind, that will cost you the way that you've put your self together. It will cost you your patterned self.

I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.

He had suffered as much as she. She closed her eyes and laid her forehead in one shaking hand. What a revolutionary thought! She had accustomed herself for so long to the idea that he was a heartless wretch. Had he just been her own very dear Robert all the time?

The memories themselves had been bad enough. It was almost unbearably painful to remember how close they had come to giving themselves to each other, how deep and lasting their love had seemed to be. It was impossible to understand how he could have changed so utterly and in such a short time. She shuddered at the memory of his coldness and callousness . . .

There was something different about his face. It was not quite smiling, but the disciplined austerity had somehow gone from it. It was as though he had allowed some of himself to come out from that place deep within where he had hidden most of his life.

All that had happened would not have happened. She would not be raw with pain. She would be safely content.

Camille, what happened to you must surely have been the very best thing that could possibly have happened. ... I wonder if the advent of Anna into your life was in its way as much of a blessing as her advent into mine has been. Two very different men, saying essentially the same thing—that the greatest catastrophe of her life was perhaps also its greatest blessing.

I was completely enchanted, and have been ever since. Don't you know how you have turned my world upside down?

But to see him again. To somehow free myself of the past completely.

It would be a challenge worth undertaking . . . to rid your face of that look of longing . . . and to replace it with a look of—something else.

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I was dead for ten years, my love, and you brought life back to me in one.

Did disasters sometimes happen to turn one away from a wrong course into the right one, the one that would bring the most happiness and the greatest fulfillment?

And she did not want to be reminded of how Christopher had changed. She wanted to remember him, if at all, as he had been before.

Her feelings for him were purely regrets for a past that might have been. He was not now the sort of man whom she would wish to captivate even if that were possible.

You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.

In the Roman world, Ovid's Metamorphoses – that extraordinary mythological epic about people changing shape (and probably the most influential work of literature on Western art after the Bible) – repeatedly returns to the idea of the silencing of women in the process of their transformation.

The second Morgan son, Rick, had changed in more ways than Deke could count since he'd been shot six months ago. He'd taken medical leave and gone back to school. "Near death experiences," he'd said, "have a way of lining up all the stray ducks in your life.

Even if they found her alive, her life would never be the same. "I hope so.

Whatever we recall, if we respond to it with love, we can transform even those memories we think of as injustices. With love we go into forgiveness. We forgive what happened and we forgive ourselves. The result is that our agreement changes and we recover a little more of the totality of ourselves.

Toltec system teaches that we are no longer little babies, or helpless. We are strong enough to change everything. No matter what conditions you find yourself in, you have the power to change them. Even those who have been raped can change their reality. The effects of your wounds are lessened if you realize you are dreaming. You can change your inner movie because you are the director, writer and actor, and you have all the power to change the story you are living.

Part of the task of composing a life is the artist's need to find a way to take what is simply ugly and, instead of trying to deny it, to use it in the broader design.

At times, the solution to a maze is to reduce it to embers ans walk straight through the ashes. ? Mary Doria Russell, Children of God