Quotes About Transformation

I had a splinter once," Shallan noted. "It eventually got out of hand.

You had to adapt. Move. Change. That was good, but it could also threaten identity, connection, and sense of purpose.

Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change.

He hadn't changed in one giant leap, but across a million little steps.

Who... who are you?" "I am what you will soon be. I am a survivor.

Before we get to this, let me explain something about myself. I've been many things in my life. Student. Spy. Sacrifice. Potted plant. However, at this point, I'm something completely different from all of those—something more frightening than any of them. I'm a writer.

A man can be reforged.

The world just changed, Gaz," Kaladin said, leaning in close. "I died down at that chasm. Now you've got my vengeful spirit to deal with.

She wasn't even certain she was Tress anymore, or if she'd become someone else. You could say, in other words, that her state at the moment was distress

We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.

Waxillium had seen some odd things in his life. He'd visited koloss camps in the Roughs, even been invited to join their numbers. He'd met and spoken with God himself and had received a personal gift from Death. That did not prepare him for the sight of a pretty young woman's chest turning nearly transparent, one of the breasts splitting and offering up the hilt of a small handgun.

He'd once believed he had been four men in his life, but he now saw he'd grossly underestimated. He hadn't lived as two, or four, or six men—he had lived as thousands, for each day he became someone slightly different. He hadn't changed in one giant leap, but across a million little steps.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

Because every path we walk changes us, Spensa

She'd felt … comfortable with Elend. Looking back on the experience, she realized that for those few moments, she hadn't really been Lady Valette. Nor had she been Vin, for that part of her—the timid crewmember—was almost as fake as Valette was. No, she'd simply been … whoever she was.

I decided that I'd see her dream fulfilled. I'd make a world where flowers returned, a world with green plants, a world where no soot fell from the sky….

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world that is not. And I think that imagination is one of the most important and defining aspects of human existence: our ability to imagine a world that is not.

I could not become a dragon. I am an utter and complete failure.

Sometimes doing things we used to do reminds us of who we used to be, and not always in good ways.

no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.

He could accept people with failings—even forgive them—but if he glossed over the problems, then they would never change.

People are elastic, Wax thought. We can keep reshaping ourselves. And if we're not quite the same as before, well, that's good. It means we can grow.

She had spent months as a knife, held immobile at someone's throat. It was time to cut.

But things can't stay the same—and that's well, for when nothing changes in your life, it's as good as being dead.