Quotes About Transformation

When man fell to his knees he became the asshole he is today.

He patted me vigorously on the back and laughed. "Wish him well, Carlitos," he said. "Wish him well." I was very tired. I had a strange surge of happy sadness. I told him that I came from a place where people rarely if ever wish one another well. "I know," he said. "The same thing happened to me. But I'm a warrior now and I can afford to wish him well.

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little." "What gap are you talking about?" "There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will.

Upon learning to see a man becomes everything by becoming nothing. He

the recapitulation, which consisted of a systematic scrutiny of one's life, segment by segment, an examination made not in the light of criticism or finding flaw, but in the light of an effort to understand one's life, and to change its course. Don Juan's claim was that once any practitioner has viewed his life in the detached manner that the recapitulation requires, there's no way to go back to the same life.

Birds fly like birds and a man who has taken the devil's weed flies as such. - As birds do? - No, he flies as a man who has taken the weed.

La lucha que cada uno libra contra su antiguo ser dura toda la vida.

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

None of us are what we once were.

Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Uno acaba convirtiéndose en aquello que ve en los ojos de quienes desea.

He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him.

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

Before I knew it, I'll be thirty and I'll realise that everday I look less the person I wanted to be when I was fifteen. (The Angel's Game)

Days fell off the calendar like dead leaves

Respirar se le ha acabado, se lo digo yo. Piense que un traje de novia es como una escafandra de buzo: no es el mejor sitio para respirar, lo divertido empieza cuando se lo quitan. El Prisionero del Cielo

El vino convierte al sabio en necio, y al necio en sabio.

History is biology's dumping ground

La llama iluminó por primera vez su semblante. Se me heló el alma. Aquel personaje no tenía nariz, ni labios, ni párpados. Su rostro era apenas una máscara de piel negra y cicatrizada, devorada por el fuego.

Ogni libro, ogni volume che vedi possiede un'anima, l'anima di coloro che lo hanno letto, di chi ha vissuto e di chi ha sognato grazie a esso. Ogni volta che un libro cambia proprietario, ogni volta che un nuovo sguardo ne sfiora le pagine, il suo spirito acquista forza.