Quotes About Transformation

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.

God made only water, but man made wine.

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.