Quotes About Transformation

Learning to live is learning to let go.

Aprender a vivir es aprender a desprenderse.

In our minds changes always equal loss and suffering.

Toute chose étant par nature impermanente, fluide et interdépendante, notre mode de pensée et nos actions modifient inévitablement l'avenir.

childhood haunts

There is only one law in the universe that never changes—that all things change, and that all things are impermanent.

But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

He himself had been quite turbulent in his youth, but a combination of self-cultivation and suffering had changed that.

All who heard the magical voice of that poor, ragged woman, felt lighter, happier and calmer than they had felt for a long time. Soon everyone had closed their eyes, the better just to listen. The songs went on and on, winding their way down into the people's minds and hearts, down into the very root of their beings, down to where they were all small and often afraid. It lifted them then and brought them out to the glorious sunlight where they felt happy and safe.

Water takes whatever shape it finds itself in. It does not judge, it does not complain, it does not try to change things. It is the source of patience. Given time it can wear away stone. Be like water.

Al amar totalmente nuestra sombra, sus cualidades se transforman. La intriga se convierte en perspicacia, la intuición reemplaza a la manipulación y hay un surgimiento de la profunda sabiduría curativa de la mujer. Así son las mujeres que aceptan su verdadero poder femenino.

my situation, however, the more I became

She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar, and the warmth within a cat's paw. She had conversed with the wind and had wiped soldier's tears. She had made people see, she'd seen herself in the sea. Butterflies had landed on her wrists, she had planted trees. She had loved, and let love go. So she smiled.

I looked along the aisle and saw her, and it was as if I saw her for the first time. Everything changed. The ancient featureless interior of me spangled orange, mint, cat-blue. I looked back to the window immediately, my face damp, my breath caught. And worried I would never have the courage to look at her again.

She is not a musical girl nor, intrinsically, a joyful girl; but the music of the four Swedes shook something awake inside her, and when she heard it she felt airborne and strong.

I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.

That is what dying is: a pull to the ground. I am thin as a shadow, yet clotted as dough, my blood as thickset as mud.

The warmth of outside was shaved from my skin and fell in curls to the floor.

I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him Dumbo. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they've started calling me Mrs. Dumbo. You can't even tell he's got curly hair anymore. There's nothing left to run my fingers through. Just this weird blond AstroTurf sprouting out of his skull.

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

Introverts are actually a lot like Clark Kent-- mild and unassuming much of the time, but able to swoop in and turn on our Supercharm when we choose.

SALVAGE To leave behind An outline, which then Becomes form. Held up, It is called beauty For the ability to contain What we did not know We wanted to know.

when your world falls apart and everything's ruined, you lose part of yourself. Not all, inconveniently. One half, the best half, dies. The other half lives.