Quotes About Transformation

We rework our own memories and reinvent ourselves to suit our tastes and predilections every day.

Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound—that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.

No matter how glorious the past, choosing to live there is choosing to live in a tomb. Live in New Life!

This stuff changes people. I just watched my best friend flip out and try to kill me not a couple days ago. I'd never seen anyone act like that...let alone him. I was so shaken by seeing the change in him I almost didn't even realize the danger I was in. I think we've got some good people here...I think we're getting by okay...but honestly...I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

Hope replaced fear. Light subsumed darkness. Strength, born of the power of this presence, mingled with Kathryn's own determination and reordered the last of her mangled body and soul, realigning them into all that she had once been. What she would now be was once again an open question.

Where once Kathryn had embraced a delicate child in the body of a young woman, now she received the tenderness of a mother's love from a spirit grown unimaginably old.

Only when her magic began to return did she realize just how much she'd given away.

Still, she experienced a pang, like a spasm in an organ that had been removed or a cramp in a phantom limb. It faded quickly, and she knew that was the last pain of its kind she would feel. A woman much like her had once loved a man who looked like him. Neither of those people existed anymore.

The common cause of the massive blindness of the Chinese officials in the nineteenth century was a huge Chinese philosophical assumption that China was a great self-sufficient Middle Kingdom that did not need to engage the world. As the Chinese emperor Qianlong famously told Lord Macartney, China had everything it needed. It didn't need the rest of the world. That painful century of humiliation finally led to China opening up.

Life never changes, until you take a step in a different direction - Kit McCann

You can't change nature, son!" "Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide.

One day in Lincoln's life can change your whole life and all lives around you.

Quiere decir —preguntó— que no soy quien parezco ser? —No exactamente —contesté—, más bien que usted ha roto con su punto de partida, que, por así decirlo, se ha salido de su marco.

I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul ... You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price.

Many of our beliefs and assumptions about what the world could or should look like will be shattered in the process.

This book is organized in three chapters. The first is an overview of the fourth industrial revolution. The second presents the main transformative technologies. The third provides a deep dive into the impact of the revolution and some of the policy challenges it poses. I conclude by suggesting practical ideas and solutions on how best to adapt, shape and harness the potential of this great transformation.

Since the first Industrial Revolution, the average real income per person in OECD economies has increased around 2,900%.

COVID-19 may compel us to address our inner problems in ways we would not have previously considered.

interaction across the physical, digital and biological domains that make the fourth industrial revolution fundamentally different from previous revolutions.

In all moments of major technological change, people, companies, and institutions feel the depth of the change, but they are often overwhelmed by it, out of sheer ignorance of its effects.

the second machine age"2

Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.

before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

In these latter-day, Degenerate times, Cherry-blossoms everywhere!