Quotes About Transformation

Love slays what we have been, That we may be what we were not.

Love slays what we have been, That we may be what we were not. from "The Dragon and the Unicorn

Disappointment is the fast track to enlightenment because it accelerates our coming to terms with reality.

Life is overcome, not by finding a strong ally (God), but through the soul's ability to develop a fresh perspective that enables the transformation of harsh realities into songs.

Why are we so unhappy despite our material affluence? [...] [T]he modern world has lost the art of "ordinary magic" - the art of transforming our ordinary, mundane, and perhaps humdrum existence into a life of beauty and joy.

Part of the crucial, if sometimes ephemeral, political work that novels do is to transform noble and praiseworthy habits, beliefs, and actions into objects of scorn.

The other day, in the course of one of those more or less clandestine visits to the city on the Clyde I make from time to time, I was walking down Buchanan Street when I came smack up against something I'd never seen before: that sculpture of a big bird struggling into flight called Concept of Kentigern. Maybe Glasgow is about ready to leave its status as industrial mastadon of the Western world and fly over into other dimensions. Maybe there's a good time coming.

You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I'm a better person than I was before we got together. That's your doing.

Once a junky, always a junky. You can stop using junk, but you are never off after the first habit.

And you know what, it's your own twin self. When you're ready, jump into that self with the attitude you admire.

I'll change my state with any wretch, Thou canst from jail or dunghill fetch; My pain's past cure, another hell, I may not in this torment dwell!

Nothing was sacred, everything was sacred, everything changed, everything stayed the same.

It all began to disappear, what my parents wanted from me, who they wanted me to be, the future they had so carefully planned.

There's this trope that repeats itself in the books you and I read to save our lives: that if where you grew up is killing you, you can leave and make a chosen, identity-based fam that takes up where your bio-fam left off.

We were leaving the empty shells of our childhoods behind and becoming prey.

All love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until ?tis fine; But when ?tis settled on the lee, And from th? impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder.

Courageous men are those who have walked from far unknown backward villages to come and lead the economists elites, army Generals, cooperate workers in Urban communities

Between your laughter and mine Lies the shadow of the sword of change.

None of the weary words they say Remain with me, I am borne like a wave of the sea Towards worlds to be.

Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.

the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning.

So, even though your symptoms, at times, may feel all encompassing and completely out of your control, your awareness inserts a new variable, and with it comes the potential for change.

Man wird nicht dadurch erleuchtet, daß man sich Lichtgestalten vorstellt, sondern durch Bewusstmachung der Dunkelheit.