Quotes About Transformation

Advanced age is a distortion of a familiar reality, it changes the body as well as circumstances.

ingeriste la poción de la muerte que todas las mujeres bebemos tarde o temprano. ¿Has notado que en la pubertad se nos acaba la energía de amazonas que traemos desde la cuna y nos convertimos en seres castrados y llenos de dudas?

The nightmares of the past were like dust that had settled along the way: the slightest gust sent them billowing up once more.

To dismantle the system that sustains civilization is very difficult and takes time, but we are achieving it, bit by bit. The complex and fascinating task of inventing a new order to replace it is long.

Voy dejando ir, voy soltando…

He was thirty-eight years old, and he was ready to change his life.

Isabel Allende

That is what I am attempting in my stumbling spiritual practice: to rid myself of the negative feelings that prevent walking with assurance. I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.

I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.

He had always been thin, but there he was reduced to nothing but skin and bones. His skin was burned by the unrelenting sun, salt, and sand, his features sharpened: he was a Giacometti sculpture in cast iron.

Isabel Allende

XXI las mujeres cambiarán la naturaleza del poder, en vez de que el poder cambie la naturaleza de las mujeres».

La casa de mis abuelos, en el barrio Providencia De Santiago, que entonces era residencial y hoy es un laberinto de comercios y oficinas, era grande y fea, una monstruosidad de cemento, habitaciones de techos altos, corrientes de aire, hollín de estufas de queroseno en las paredes, pesados cortinajes de felpa roja, muebles españoles hechos para durar un siglo, retratos horrendos de parientes muestras y pilas de libros polvorientos. El frente de la casa era señorial.

En esas horas quise tomar el destino en mis manos y desde entonces muchas cosas me habían sucedido, tenía la impresión de haber vivido varias vidas, de haberme vuelto humo cada noche y haber renacido por las mañanas.

No importa a quien amemos, tampoco importa ser correspondidos o si la relación es duradera. Basta la experiencia de amar, eso nos transforma

Ce pacat ca ardoarea inflacarata se transforma intr-o dragoste deplina! Mie imi place tocmai inflacararea. (din "Viata si spririt")

La experiencia de ese año de enfermedad le infundió un ardiente deseo de vivir, como si el premio por el sufrimiento fuera haber descubierto la piedra filosofal, la esquiva sustancia de los alquimistas capaz de transformar el plomo en oro y rejuvenecer.

Yo escribía cada día un nuevo episodio, inmersa por completo en el mundo que creaba con el poder omnímodo de las palabras, transformada en un ser disperso, reproducida hasta el infinito, viendo mi propio reflejo en múltiples espejos, viviendo innumerables vidas, hablando con muchas voces.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. (page 20)

I knew I could never forget my past, but I wanted to stop talking about it so that I would be fully present in my new life.

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.