Quotes About Transformation

To take a people who were traveling apace the broadway to hell, and to be able to turn them, and set their face to God. . . . It is what we must strive for.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Systems die; instincts remain.

Every new time will give its law.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty, nothing at all.

Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day, is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.

Irene Claremont de Castillego

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

The surest poison is time.