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Quotes About Transformation

I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made me what I am.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Un solo acontecimiento puede alterar bruscamente el aspecto de un lugar, pero también un cúmulo de pequeñas circunstancias puede variarlo gradualmente y sin que sea posible apercibirse de ello a simple vista.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You never encounter the same person twice, for everyone perpetually changes second by second. This even applies to parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister. You are wrong in grabbing the past image of a person and thinking that what you see now is the same person you saw in the past. Of course, it is also a fact that you too are changing second by second. You should live with this fact strongly imprinted on your mind: All human beings are constantly renewing themselves.
~ Masami Saionji
I'm just being selfish..... I'm here on my own free will... I used to always cry and give up... I nearly went the wrong way... But you... You showed me the right way... I was always chasing you... Wanting to overtake you... I just wanted to walk with you... I wanted to be with you... You changed me! Your smile saved me! So I'm not afraid to die protecting you!!! Because I-- Love You...
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Trump acted at once the emperor and the boy who said that the emperor has no clothes, ripping the illusory cover of decency off the system, forcing everyone to stare at its obscene nature. Unlike the emperor in the fairy tale, though, Trump felt no shame and so was not transformed by the exposure—rather, he transformed the system, once again stripping away the moral aspiration of politics.
~ Masha Gessen
And with this, the transformation of Russia back into the USSR was, for all Putin's intents and purposes, complete.
~ Masha Gessen
When I became Jason, an English computer expert, I returned to a calmer and far more comfortable lifestyle. The cover verged on perfection; the one tiny defect was my complete ignorance of the English language and computers.
~ Massimo Carlotto
If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create?
~ Matt Bernstein Sycamore
You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.
~ Matt Haig
And even if you were a pawn - maybe we all are - then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.
~ Matt Haig
The scar will become a symbol.
~ Matt Hardy
Good things are gradual; bad things are sudden. Above all, good things evolve.
~ Matt Ridley
all gods and all superstitions emerge from within human minds, and go through characteristic but unplanned transformations as history unfolds. Thus even the most top–down feature of human culture is actually a bottom–up, emergent phenomenon. O'Grady
~ Matt Ridley
Let's give a bit less credit to creationists, while we encourage and celebrate the evolution of everything.
~ Matt Ridley
What is it about human beings that enables them to keep changing their lives in this tumultuous way?
~ Matt Ridley
As Heraclitus put it, 'Nothing endures but change.
~ Matt Ridley
Letting good evolve, while doing bad, has been the dominant theme of history. That is why the news is full of only bad things being done, but we find when they are over that great good has happened unheralded. Good things are gradual; bad things are sudden. Above all, good things evolve.
~ Matt Ridley
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
~ Matthew Arnold
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.
~ Matthew Arnold
Jesus's time, the dominant social vision was centered
~ Matthew Fox
We become the books we read.
~ Matthew Kelly
Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
~ Matthew Kelly
Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.
~ Matthew Kelly