Quotes About Transformation

La aceptación de la información anómala aporta terror y posibilidad, revolución y transformación. El rechazo del hecho insoportable asfixia la adaptación y estrangula la vida.

A voluntary death-and-rebirth transformation—the change necessary to adapt when terrible things emerge—is therefore a solution to the potentially fatal rigidity of erroneous certainty, excessive order, and stultification.

No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

In truth, there was more than one thing behind it, but at the heart of the transformation was a powerful visualization technique that I taught the Strattonites called future pacing.

Excellence doesn't persist; time passes, and mediocrity asserts itself.*

Because the world is revealed, to an indeterminate degree, through the template of your values. If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of statiny who you are.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

And maybe this whole thing has taught me something else about what kindness is for. Because, looking back at this year, I still basically did fail when I tried to protect everybody. But that doesn't mean my efforts didn't matter. Maybe kindness spreads slowly, and even fails for a while, but then sort of seeps through again and keeps moving outward, until you suddenly find yourself surrounded by a ring of fellow hamster owners who used to be your enemies.

El amor es un terremoto seguido da un tsunami. El temblor te lo cambia todo, te lo altera todo, lo remueve y lo agita todo. Pero es el tsunami posterior el que inunda el corazón de luces y sorpresas.

Y ella le susurraba: Nací el día que te conocí. Y él respondía: Dejé de ser yo en ese momento.

el fuego, mire usted que obviedad, quema una cosa pero a la vez deja allanado el camino para que crezca otra

Los nombres terminan conformando a las personas y quien deja escapar el suyo también abraza otro destino.

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

He took her as though she were a toy, a toy or a closed rosebud which he brought into bloom each night of pleasure. [She] began to lose her timidity, giving herself over to that lascivious union, growing in response, turning into a heartsome, spirited lover.

Tu nunca vai mudar, meu bem. Tua única presunção é tua honra. Mas eu já comi ela uma vez, vou comer outra… Por mais professora que você seja, meu bem, na vadiação é minha aluna. E eu vim para acabar de te formar…

But the streets still revealed, along with the progress and future greatness, some remnants of the recent past, of the time of bandits and bloodshed.

Quanto mais puta em jovem mais séria na velhice. Ficou donzela e bucho…

A veces me gustaría volver a ser el que era cuando soñaba con llegar a ser el que soy.

The image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

I think I understood love better when I had no love.

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges , The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town , The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

El talento tiene la capacidad de transformar un problema natural en una virtud que te diferencia de los demás.

This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.