Quotes About Transformation

Communists] openly declare that their ends can only be attained by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

inner" healing and changing of belief systems must take place before the disease is eradicated.

Total unconditional forgiveness" and "unconditional love" are two of the most powerful solvents as positive feelings you can use to replace the old negative feelings in the Script.

He was a baby once, she thought. New and perfect, cradled in his mother's arms. The mysterious Sylvie. Now he was a feathery husk, ready to blow away. His eyes were half open, milky, like an old dog, and his mouth had grown beaky with the extremity of age, opening and closing, a fish out of water. Bertie could feel a continual tremor running through him, an electrical current, the faint buzz of life. Or death, perhaps. Energy was gathering around him, the air was static with it.

In the endgame a pawn can change into a queen.

I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.

Everything changes and nothing remains still. PLATO, Cratylus

If Richard had lived, perhaps... but one cannot look backwards, only forwards. What has passed has passed for ever. What is it Heraclitus says? One Cannot step in the same river twice?' ... 'More or less. I suppose a more accurate way of putting it would be You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

Before the beginning is the void and the void belongs in neither time nor space and is therefore beyond our imagination. Nothing will come of nothing unless it's the beginning of the world. This is how it begins, with the word and the word is life. The void is transformed by a gigantic firecracker allowing time to dawn and imagination to begin.

She had never chosen death over life before and as she was leaving she knew something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed. Then the dark obliterated all thoughts.

no book could ever be left in the condition you found it in because it was changed every time it was read by someone.

Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.