Quotes About Transformation

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.

s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.