Quotes About Transformation

They looked at each other until they weren't acquaintances any longer.

Everybody does it." No, not everybody does it; conscience and social responsibility are still alive if not too well in America. But the dramatic transformation of Sammy Glick from the antihero of the forties to the role-model hero for the Yuppies of the eighties is a painful reminder of the moral breakdown we are suffering without even seeming to realize that suffering is involved.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

What we think, we become

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Root out the love of self, as you might the autumn lotus with your hand.

My name is now Christian; but my name at the first was Graceless.

The most ignorant woman can become a great actress, under the stress of emotion.

Not everything that's broken is destroyed, even the universe exists only after splitting to pieces

To innovate is not to reform.

To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!

For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and then, with weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when—There she blows!—the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to fight some other world, and go through young life's old routine again.

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.

War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.

I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.

There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most desired health.

You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned.

Such is the summary style in which the Typees convert perverse-minded and rebellious hogs into the most docile and amiable pork; a morsel of which placed on the tongue melts like a soft smile from the lips of Beauty.

we found ourselves launched into this tormented sea, where guilty beings transformed into those fowls and these fish, seemed condemned to swim on everlastingly without any haven in store, or beat that black air without any horizon.

Every heart is ice-bound till wine melt it, and reveal the tender grass and sweet herbage budding below, with every dear secret, hidden before like a dropped jewel in a snow-bank, lying there unsuspected through winter till spring.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.