Quotes About Transformation

But children grow up too, and they too must learn from history how easy it is for human beings to be transformed into inhuman beings through incitement and intolerance.

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner's flag are hoisted on it.

There are wolves hiding in the gray flock that is - characters who still know what freedom is. Moreover, these wolves are not only strong in themselves; there is also the danger that one fine morning they will transmit their characteristics to the masses, so that the flock turns into a pack. This is a ruler's nightmare.

Die Menschenordnung gleicht dem Kosmos darin, daß sie von Zeit zu Zeiten, um sich von neuem zu gebären, ins Feuer tauchen muß.

The lazy flesh disappeared. Our muscles became hard as steel, refined on the anvil of an experienced blacksmith. Even our faces changed. Among other things, we learned to ride, to fence, to take a fall. And these we learned for life.

Der Bildhauer steht zunächst dem rohen Block, der puren Materie gegenüber, die jede Möglichkeit umschließt. Sie antworten dem Meißel; er kann zerstören oder Wasser des Lebens geistige Macht aus ihr befreien.

La mécanisation de l'homme avait fait de l'Europe un désert.

I am the window-cleaner, here to cause the cleansing pain.

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck , evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.

Je prends le livre ouvert à la pliure, je me remets à son rythme, à la respiration d'un autre qui raconte. Si moi aussi je suis un autre, c'est parce que les livres, plus que les années et les voyages, changent les hommes.

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyteller. If I am someone else, it's also because books move men more than journeys or tears. After many pages you end up learning a variant, a different move than the one taken and thought inevitable. I break away from what I am when I learn to treat my own life differently.

Attraverso le lacrime, che non sono un velo ma gocce per vedere con futuro. [La faccia delle nuvole]

to effect large-scale changes in our lives and in the world, we need to hold large-scale visions in our minds and consciously pour our energy into them.

Contact is the lifeblood of growth, means for changing oneself, and one's experience of the world.

A basic gestalt principle is to accentuate that which exists rather than merely attempting to change it. Nothing can change until it is first accepted.

How strange it felt to be alive, and whole, and astonishingly worth saving.

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

Stand still. But not like Lot's wife." (From a talk on her book *Seeking God, Seeking Life*, (YouTube video), St Paul's, London, May 19, 2013)

To be transformed implies letting go of control for a while in the hopeful expectation that something worthwhile may result

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

When you feel love or joy—or any positive emotion—you are literally being the expanded version that life has caused you to become. When you feel fear, anger, or despair—or any negative emotion—you are not, in this moment, by virtue of whatever it is that you are giving your attention to, allowing yourself to be that new expanded version … you are not letting yourself keep up with who you have become.

it is not possible to stand still or be stuck, because Energy, and therefore life, is always in motion. Things are always changing.