Quotes About Transformation

I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, andThis Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,Is immortal diamond.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve Strokes of havoc únselve The sweet especial scene, Rural scene, a rural scene, Sweet especial rural scene.

Leave comfort root-room.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

Jesus was not just concerned with souls. He wanted a changed society. That is precisely why he begins the new thing within a community of disciples whom he orders to quit acting as if they are superior, to forgive one another seventy-seven times a day, and to turn the other cheek when someone strikes them.

To bury grief plant a seed.

To change and to change for the better are two different things.

out of darkness i come, a woman. and on i go and on.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Estaba muerta, ése era ahora su estado natural y pacífico. Como si nunca hubiera sido otra cosa: de repente pétrea, muerta y neutra, una cosa.

Como todas las grandes pestes, también esta ínfima peste mía terminaba con una lluvia. Junto con el agua que manaba de mi pelo y me surcaba las mejillas, el mal se desprendía de mí, partía. Pero con él, todo resto de orgullo; con él, tal vez, la juventud.

I have not written my memoirs for those young people who can only save themselves from falling by spending their youth in ignorance, but for those whom experience of life has rendered proof against being seduced, whom living in the fire has transformed into salamanders.

If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.

from the idea of nature as a "fixed" and harmonious order that can be subjected to classification and mathematical description to an idea of nature that is run through with continual transformations, something that is living and historicized even while it works according to recognizable laws and is animated by recognizable forces.

rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them ... imaginative metaphysics shows that man becomes all things by not understanding them ... for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

You could sense the end of the night, like an omen. After it, as happened every morning, nothing would be the same.