Quotes About Transformation

There was no physical wound—our transformation healed all injuries—but the betrayal would be etched in our minds forever.

Finally, I see Damon the way Father had seen him: too imperious, too willful, too quick to make up his mind, and too slow to change it.

That afternoon marked more than one change in Eustace's attitude towards life. Physical ugliness ceased to repel him and conversely physical beauty lost some of its appeal.

With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust.

Nothing resembles today so much as tomorrow.

A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress!

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

The greatest miracle of love is the reformation of a coquette.

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be." Leon Bloy

I tried to warn her," Linda said, "but you could tell she'd gotten into it. She changed. She began hanging around with undesirable types, rough, tough people. I'd see her in bars and she always seemed to go after the street people.

A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.

Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace.

I know that pain has festered, chewed and twisted your insides so you, at times, don't know the person who resides there anymore.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain.

Well, for a considerable time after you were born, you had no such reason for rejoicing in your form. You were then a mere cabbage-insect, a hairy worm; and you were so poor that you could not afford even one robe to cover your nakedness; and your appearance was altogether disgusting. Everybody in those days hated the sight of you.

What I do, Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist anymore.

Fjärilar skola veta att dö medan solen skiner.

a good story can heal. I