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Quotes About Transformation

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.
~ Garth Stein
I was a great many far cries from myself.
~ Gary Lutz
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.
~ George Herbert
The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.
~ George MacDonald
As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.
~ George MacDonald
Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.
~ George R. R. Martin
Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.
~ Gerolamo Cardano
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.
~ Gregory Maguire
Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.
~ Malcolm X
If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
~ Marianne Moore
The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.
~ Marilyn Manson
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.
~ Mark Twain
The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.
~ Matthew Henry
I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
~ Matthew McConaughey