Quotes About Transformation

Once you are a butterfly, you can really love – the kind of love that makes a new life. It's better than all the hugging caterpillars can do.

She felt something inside her turn to stone and fall down into her gut, where it lay cold and hard and uncomfortable. Which was impossible, of course. Human organs did not turn to stone and certainly could not shift into the stomach.

Change goes on all the time. You lose something and you gain something else." - Cery

Unless the grain of wheat falls to the ground during our lives, it cannot bear fruit for our eternity.

Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always-- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flames are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

Switch the direction your past is sending you. Soon enough, it becomes a different past.

the past is redefined by the arrow of its future.

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered.

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

But Paris, all in all, isn't what it used o be, ever since that pencil sharpener, the Eiffel Tower, has been sticking up in the distance, visible from every angle.

The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.

What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself.

Agora selo o que não devia ser dito,no túmulo em que me torno.

Alchemy, however, is a chaste prostitute, who has many lovers but disappoints all and grants her favors to none. She transforms the haughty into fools, the rich into paupers, the philosophers into dolts, and the deceived into loquacious deceivers…. —Trithemius, Annalmm Hirsaugensium Tomi II, S. Gallo, 1690, 141

there are two forms of magic. There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man's downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. But there is a magic that is divine, where God's knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man, and it serves to transform nature, and one of its ends is to prolong man's very life.

El saber no es como la moneda, que se mantiene físicamente intacta incluso a través de los intercambios más infames; se parece más bien a un traje de gran hermosura, que el uso y la ostentación van desgastando.

C?n ph?i phá v? lu?t l? trÆ°á»›c khi có th? ph?c v? nó má»™t cách thích h?p.

wo Es war, soll Ich werden.

El amor tiene efectos muy diversos; primero ablanda el alma, luego la enferma… Pero más tarde ésta siente el fuego verdadero del amor divino, y grita, y se lamenta, y es como piedra que en el horno se calcina, y se deshace y crepita lamida por las llamas.

Si vede che la conversione trasforma anche i tratti del viso oltre a quelli dell'anima.

Sì, signore, io discendo dalla scimmia. Ma voi, signore, voi vi risalite!

the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself