Quotes About Transformation

Trainers All Turn Grey (after Robert Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay') You buy your trainers new. They cost a bob or two. At first they're clean and white, The laces thick and tight. Then they must touch the ground – (You have to walk around). You learn to your dismay Trainers all turn grey.

My face tightens, cheeks sharpening, subtly shifting, stretching. My breath changes as my nose shifts, ridges pushing out from the bridge. My limbs loosen and lengthen.

We need nothing less than a revolution in our attitudes towards conception, pregnancy, birth and parenting.

Time eases all things.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?

Do not walk away from death because you came out of it.

Of how much light will my destiny's eyes have to become aware until it will come true in death?

How much soul can include the self-salvation of sin?

It is probably the only memory of real joy I have in the madness of my past.

Non rimpiangere il passato. Guarda al futuro.

Psychoanalysis is the transformation of hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden

Her first week as a girl wearing black came and went and she knew she was doing a terrible job at it. But she didn't care. How could she focus on the inanities of life as a Thorndike student when she knew that Melissa Mayhew had tortured and killed her father?

Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

I guess the question is, 'What do we need to let go of and what do we need to move on to?'" No

Repentance is ever the key to a better, happier life. All of us need it.

Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.

Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money.

A family man from Siberia As a father was very inferior But one operation Revised the situation And now he's Mother Superior

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.