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Quotes About Transformation

Words writ in waters.
~ George Chapman
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.
~ Robert MacNeil
When you first learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.
~ Thaddeus Golas
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long-time-no-see." If he hadn't broken your heart, you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!
~ Phyllis Battelle
From a fallen tree, make kindling.
~ Spanish proverb
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.
~ Pierre de Beaumarchais
What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly.
~ Richard Bach
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.
~ Bishop Westcott
The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book, I am living. I am growing. I am tapping myself. I am changing. The process is the product.
~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
John the Baptist pretending to be Karl Marx.
~ Anonymous
"There's no such thing as death" — In nature, nothing dies; From each sad remnant of decay Some forms of life arise. The faded leaf that falls All sere and brown to earth, Ere long will mingle with the shapes That give the floweret birth.
~ Charlotte Young, 1849
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose, new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterward.
~ G.K. Chesterton
There is nothing hot that will not get cold.
~ Haitian proverb
I was addicted to the hokey pokey, but I turned myself around.
~ Author Unknown
Our innocence had been replaced by fear and we had become monsters. There was nothing we could do about it.
~ Ishmael Beah
If anyone had told them that they would look back at this day while having conversations that mended the repetitive brokenness in so many lives, they wouldn't have believe it.
~ Ishmael Beah
So they must find a way to repair their broken hearts by relighting the fire that is now dull within them. They should live for that.
~ Ishmael Beah
Ata nuk kishin menduar kurre se ajo mund te qeshte ,dhe sic do gje qe permbys nje mendim te pergjithshem, kjo e qeshur zgjoi tek ata nje fare shqetesimi , gati gati frike
~ Ismail Kadare
Nga shqiptarë të sunduar u gdhinë në mysliman të çliruar?
~ Ismail Kadare
Their bodies were like corpses ready for embalming, from which all innards likely to rot had already been removed. Superfluous emotions like curiosity, fear and lust for gossip or excitement had been shed along with the useless flesh and excess fat. Javer once said that Granny Shano could as easily have grabbed the ear of Benito Mussolini himself as the Italian officer's.
~ Ismail Kadare
Dan je.... samo bijela hartija, na kojoj se sve biljezi i ispisuje.... a racun se placa nocu.. na velikim, mracnim poljima nesanice. Ali tu se sve rijesava i brise... konacno i nepovratno.. Svaka preboljena patnja, nestaje tu kao rijeka ponornica ili sagori bez traga i spomena...
~ Ivo Andri?
Od svega što ima i jeste,ja sam hteo da napravim sredstvo kojim bih savladao i osvojio svet, a sada je taj svet od mene na?inio svoje sredstvo.
~ Ivo Andri?
Možda revolucije ra?aju ?udovišta? -Jeste, ali one se za?inju u veli?ini i moralnoj ?istoti, ali ra?aju ?udovišta.
~ Ivo Andri?
Avlija živi sama, za sebe, sa stotinu promena i uvek ista.
~ Ivo Andri?