Quotes About Transformation

Everyone has a story, it is what defines us. Our story continues to alter as we evolve in-and-out of our own skin, changing in manipulating the world around us.

One must die at the present level to be reborn onto a higher plane not just in the physical state, but also in the conscious and emotional state.

Why didn't Grandpa change you back?" Kendra asked. Grandma's eyebrows shot up. "Probably because I kept laying eggs for his breakfast.

Many lessons must be lived to be understood. You'll find that it doesn't so much matter what happens as you live—what gives it all purpose and meaning is who you become.

Lindy produced the tiny chest and started prying at it with her fingers. "It's stuck, but the lid has some wiggle to it. Wait, here we go." She lifted the small lid, and simultaneously the top of the chest folded open as well. And then the chest kept unfolding in astonishing ways, as if lid after lid were opening in unpredictable directions. With a startled squeal, Lindy dropped the miniature chest as it transformed as well, mimicking the larger version.

Rollan glanced at Meilin and her panda. "What's your power going to be? Cuddling?" Meilin's face was pure ice. For a moment her lips trembled, but after that the anger only touched her eyes. She held out her arm and in a flash Jhi became a design on the back of her hand. She turned and stormed away.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

Control yourself, she told herself forcibly. Become someone who can deal with this. She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.

Don't try to stop yourself from feeling. You'll hate who you become.

Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.

If there was a universal law regarding mankind, it was that they'd find a way to ferment anything, given time.

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.

If I pretend … If I pretend I didn't do those things, it means that I can't have grown to become someone else.

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.

My Megan is a sunrise, always changing, but beautiful the entire time.

Sometimes, you have to destroy something in order to build something better.

Don't forget the ash because you see a little silk.

I could be afraid, then become courageous. I could be small-minded, then come to understand. I could be selfish. Then move beyond it. I could start as human, then allow myself to become something more.

Scared to go onward, but terrified to go back to what you were

You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared. I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted. ... I hate what you just did, Rand,' Nynaeve snarled. 'No, "Hate" isn't strong enough. I loathe what you've done. What has happened to you?' Test him!' Rand whispered, voice dangerous. 'Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.