Quotes About Transformation

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

All will come out in the washing.

The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth.

What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Death is a door life opens.

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Time, in the turning-over of days, works change, for better or worse.

Time bears away all things.

Time brings all things to pass.

Now is the Winter of our discontent.

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly.

When all that hate energy was focused on me, it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in, it will help you. If you believe it is going to kill you, it will kill you.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.