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Quotes About Transformation

If I am to become a delicate cloud upon the sky, I must first convince the ground that I am not abandoning her. Like a worried lover, sure, she must be comforted and reassured that I will return following my dramatic and regal ascent to the sky.
~ Brandon Sanderson
If nothing changed, nothing would ever come to exist.
~ Brandon Sanderson
How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.
~ Brandon Sanderson
A few lessons, and you think you're through? We've barely begun. You are still a fool, Elend Venture- you just don't look like one anymore.
~ Brandon Sanderson
When I'm at my worst, I feel like I can't change. Like I've never changed. That I've always felt this way, and always will.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Y ahí está la ironía! El propio viaje que había emprendido para lograr lo que quería la había transformado en una persona que ya no era capaz de disfrutar de esa victoria
~ Brandon Sanderson
I am a stick,' he said. He sounded satisfied.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Venli attuned Anxiety, then Confidence, then Anxiety again.
~ Brandon Sanderson
A veces, un hipócrita no es más que una persona en proceso de cambio.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Qué clase de cosas puedes romper? -De todo tipo. Puertas, dispositivos electrónicos, mesas... Una vez rompí un pollo. -¿Un pollo? -Sí, estaba de excursión. Me... frustré y cogí un pollo. Cuando lo solté, se le cayeron de golpe todas las plumas y, a partir de entonces, se negó a comer otra cosa que no fuera comida para gatos.
~ Brandon Sanderson
This work I do, it's about passion, Vin. It's about dynamic events; it's about change!
~ Brandon Sanderson
The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process
~ Brandon Sanderson
She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Yo tampoco sé lo que soy. ¿Hombre del puente? ¿Cirujano? ¿Soldado? ¿Esclavo? Solo son etiquetas. Dentro, soy yo. Un yo muy distinto del que era hace un año, pero no puedo preocuparme por eso, así que sigo adelante y espero que mis pies me lleven adonde necesito ir. -Kaladin-
~ Brandon Sanderson
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.
~ Brandon Sanderson
And Rand opened his eyes for the first time in a very long while. He knew—somehow—that he would never again hear Lews Therin's voice in his head. For they were not two men, and never had been.
~ Brandon Sanderson
does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that 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.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Elend smiled, recognizing the reference. Trentison's Supplying in Scale. A few years earlier, he would have agreed with Yomen, and the two would probably have spent the afternoon discussing the philosophy of leadership in Yomen's palace. However, Elend had learned things in the last few years that he simply hadn't been able to get form his studies.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You've been reforged. It can happen to men.
~ Brandon Sanderson
But sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I'll have more than that." He tapped the windowsill. "I'm going to refound the Knights Radiant.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I'm sorry, Mistress," OreSeur whispered. "How long?" Vin asked, bowing her head. "Since you gave my predecessor—the real OreSeur—the dog's body," the kandra said. "I killed him that day and took his place, wearing the body of a dog. You never saw him as a wolfhound.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Los recuerdos son fósiles, huesos dejados por versiones muertas de nosotros mismos.
~ Brandon Sanderson