Quotes About Transformation

To recognize the momentousness of what has happened is to apprehend what might happen. Inside the word emergency is emerge; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters.

The blue fairy godmother opened the door, and asked her if she'd had a good time, and she said Yes, and No, and It was very interesting to see all the fancy clothes and the fancy plates with fancy cakes and the fancy mirrors and the fancy lights. And then she said, It was even more interesting to see lizards become footwomen and mice become horses.

And things continue to change in interesting and sometimes even auspicious ways.

Revolutions are first of all ideas.

perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.

Alguna vez las revoluciones fueron lo que pensamos que serían?

Cooking is likewise a mode of transformation and a pleasure to which I often repair, and it sometimes seems so pleasurable because it is the opposite of writing; it engages all the senses; it's immediate and unreproduceable and then it's complete and eaten and over. The tasks are simple, messy, fragrant, and brief, and success and failure are easy to determine.

seized power nowhere, but nonetheless changed everything.

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay and then of this crisis when emergence from what came before must be total and abrupt.

What is happening here eats out the heart of the city from the inside: the infrastructure is for the most part being added to rather than torn down, but the life within it is being drained away, a siphoning off of diversity, cultural life, memory, complexity. What remains will look like the city that was—or like a brighter, shinier, tidier version of it—but what it contained will be gone. It will be a hollow city.

when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

You don't have to subscribe to a political ideology, move to a commune, or join the guerrillas in the mountains; you wake up in a society suddenly transformed, and chances are good you will be part of that transformation in what you do, in whom you connect to, in how you feel. Something changes.

Even decay is a form of transformation into other living things, part of the great rampage of becoming that is also unbecoming.

but embracing or resisting are optional, and metamorphosis inevitable.

Perder cosas tiene que ver con la desaparición de lo conocido, perderse tiene que ver con la aparición de lo desconocido.

La furia y el deseo vienen en un paquete, entremezclados y revueltos en algo que siempre amenaza con transformar el eros en thanatos, amor en muerte, algunas veces literalmente.

Every time I thought that I was put together, I realized that we're always putting ourselves together, gathering the world in, letting it sift down and form us.

The words shot through Vivi's bones and blood and muscle, and her body relaxed, so that when her feet touched the ground they met the earth differently, as though they had found roots that reached deep down and anchored to something tender and undamaged.

I was stupefied. Had she once been a star and her bright burning had dimmed? Maybe because she had us? Or had Mama

Each of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever

She had treated her life as a room that had to be completely refurnished.

There is no seer or anything seen / no speaker or anything spoken / the appearance of buddhas and also their teachings / are merely what we imagine 44. Those who view such things as real / they don't see the Buddha / nor do those who imagine nothing / only those who transform their existence.

The tears of our devastation fertilize the soil of our evolution.

I had never considered myself beautiful, but I decided that I could change my mind.