Quotes About Transformation

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

Mithra became the Sun,

Endlich, wie denn in dieser Welt jedes noch so hartnäckige Stehenbleiben doch nur ein unvermerktes Weiterrücken ist, erscheint auch diesem Status quo ein Hoffnungsstrahl.

He who cannot evolve a world within his own soul needs the external world to evolve his soul.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

That insane asshole is dead I drowned him and he's not coming back. Look he has a new life a new name now which no one knows except the one who gave it.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

He became what his language made him.

The work involved in exploring your own nature, identifying weaknesses in your character, and then working to overcome them can be difficult and even painful. But as with all transformative change, the outcomes can more than compensate for the work of achieving them. You may be the only person in your life who is unaware of the shortcomings in your character.

The reality is that the major environmental problems we face today - of which climate change is only one - cannot be solved by means of technological or market-based solutions while keeping existing social relations intact. Rather, what is needed most is a transformation in social relations: in community, culture, and economy, in how we relate to each other as human beings, and how we relate to the planet. What is needed, in other words, is an ecological revolution.

There's a part of all of us that longs to know that even what's weakest about us is still redeemable and can ultimately count for something good.

I can put on a hat, or put on a coat, Or wear a pair of glasses or sail a boat. I can change all my names and find a place to hide. I can do most anything, but I'm still myself inside. I can go far away, or dream of anything, Or wear a scary costume or act like a king. I can change all my names and find a place to hide. I can do almost anything, but I'm still myself. I'm still myself. I'm still myself inside.

It's true that we take a great deal of our own upbringing on into our adult lives and our lives as parents; but it's true, too, that we can change some of the things that we would like to change. It can be hard, but it can be done.

Parenthood is not learned: Parenthood is an inner change.

Even if the social order of technocracy threatened the species with nuclear annihilation and the individual young person with psychic fragmentation, the media technologies produced by that order offered the possibility of individual and collective transformation. McLuhan's dual emphases also allowed young people to imagine the local communities they built around these media not simply as communities built around consumption of industrial products, but as model communities for a new society.

When at last I left him I ran all the way home. I laughed, I talked to myself, I wanted to shout and sing, and I found it very difficult not to tell my parents how happy I was, that my whole life had changed, and that I was no longer a beggar but as rich as Croesus.

Adamsberg, badi bene, non attacca, ma ti trasforma, ti accerchia, ti prende alle spalle, ti neutralizza e alla fine ti disarma. Non può essere né braccato né preso. Neanche da lei, Regina Mathilde.

cercava di sostituire la parola scrivania con la parola tavolo … in scrivania sentiva prigionia, agonia, tirannia. Mentre in tavolo sentiva il fruscio di un refolo, il sibilo del volo. Tavolo fluttuava, scrivania no.

Changing your birth name is like divorcing your Self from Your Divine Plan.

In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older, the archaic, still subsist; culture can still do something to that nature and work at transforming that "referent." Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.