Quotes About Transformation

It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. [...] It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more.

Mourning Becomes Electra

Simplicity is in such scarce supply, I thought, yet so many people would benefit by it, be transformed by it.

I was pretty certain that the adventure I was going through now had made me a more creative, flexible thinker than I'd ever been.

Jesus] said "Follow me" and ended up with a lot of losers. And these losers ended up, through no virtue or talent of their own, becoming saints. Jesus wasn't after the best but the worst.

In Revelation 10, John] eats the book—not just reads it—he got it into his nerve endings, his reflexes, his imagination. The book he ate was the Holy Scripture. Assimilated into his worship and prayer, his imagining and writing, the book he ate was metabolized into the book he wrote.

This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the metaphysics of experience, and it is almost always a transforming moment. (p. 286)

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Eppure resta che qualcosa è accaduto, forse un niente che è tutto.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." What

You know, she used to tear down parts of that house and put them back together herself.

Art unmakes the world made by work.

Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secrethiding-places of the rocks,that Zeus might change me to a winged bird.

Time cancels young pain.

If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.

This language is beginning to invent another me.

Happiness is almost as good as magic for altering a person's looks.

It was his time with the Xanti which had changed him. They thought that everyone's life was like a river; you had to flow with the current and not struggle, which wasted breath and made you more likely to drown.

It was his time with the Xanti which had changed him. They thought that everyone's life was like a river; you had to flow with the current and not struggle, which wasted breath and made you more likely to drown.

Lord Byrne looked at his wife. He'd married her blind, knowing nothing about her except that she had a quiet voice, a sensible manner and some spare cash. Now, eight years later, he would have died for her without a moment's hesitation. To dress up as a hussar in Wellington's army would be harder, but he would do it.

He was just drifting off to sleep when it occurred to him that perhaps the dog was not so ordinary after all. Perhaps he was someone the ogre had changed, and Ivo was going to spend the night hugging a headmaster or a tax inspector

Culture is sometimes only a context in which people relate to each other, but sometimes culture has a power of its own to shape and transform social relationships.

Negative and positive are not two aspects of energy and consciousness: they are one and the same. Whatever particles of energy and consciousness in your self have turned negative must be reconverted into their original positive way of being. This cannot be accomplished without fully taking responsibility for the negativity in you.