Quotes About Transformation

You are turning me like someone turning a globe in her hand, and yes, I have another side like a China no one, not even me, has ever seen. So describe to me what's there, say what you are looking at and I will close my eyes so I can see it too, the oxcarts and all the lively flags. I love the sound of your voice like a little saxophone telling me what I could never know unless I dug a hole all the way down through the core of myself.

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

You have been conditioned to be what you are. That means that you can also condition yourself to be who you want to be.

Yes, the wind came up-- Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused. And changed us all, Petra said softly.

The wind came up and changed us all..

The stony soil of our heart, the rock foundation of our corrupt human nature, need not, therefore, be the basis for judgment upon us. It can be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, just as the hill of Golgotha was when drops of blood fell upon it and it was transformed from a place of execution to the Rock of Atonement.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71

There is nothing so stable as change.

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'.

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

People are crazy and times are strange I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range I used to care, but things have changed

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

That he not busy being born is busy dying

I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can.........from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not a book but .........)

You drink bitter water And you been eating the bread of sorrow You can't live for today When all you're ever thinking of is tomorrow The path you've endured has been rough When you've decided that you've had enough, then Ye shall be changed, ye shall be changed In a twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet blows The dead will arise and burst out of your clothes And ye shall be changed

Something is happening but you don't know what it is.

When I say my name I hear a burned-down church.

different era." "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.

It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others. —Fernando Pessoa