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Quotes About Transformation

Age swallows our childhood.
~ Terri Guillemets
The man who wants to be an angel is never in a hurry to begin.
~ Lemuel K. Washburn
the shadow on the tree bark moves and emerges in the shape of a gecko
~ Terri Guillemets
Tear up your frustrations into confetti dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
Autumn is the season of change.
~ Taoist Proverb
...the world reveals itself in its true dimensions in the Autumn...
~ Hal Borland
"I'm dreading fall. It is a terrifying season," he says... "Everything shriveling up and dying." I don't know how to answer. Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. I've never thought to be frightened of it.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Wither
Autumn is the hush before winter.
~ French proverb
Autumn is Spring turned antique.
~ Terri Guillemets
Leaves, questioned by winter, fall.
~ Terri Guillemets
O wingèd brother on the harebell, stay— Was God's hand very pitiful, the hand That wrought thy beauty at a dream's demand? Yea, knowing I love so well the flowery way, He did not fling me to the world astray— He did not drop me to the weary sand, But bore me gently to a leafy land: Tinting my wings, He gave me to the day.
~ Edwin Markham, "The Butterfly"
The ancients did well when they typified the soul as a butterfly!
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
The cat was created when the lion sneezed.
~ Arabian Proverb
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
~ Author Unknown
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
~ Joseph Campbell
Changes in life are like extra strength Gold Bond Medicated Powder. The burning means it's working.
~ John Mayer
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839
If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.
~ Author Unknown
Rice is born in water and must die in wine.
~ Italian proverb
the lights of a distant city seem star-like and pretty but move closer into sight they engulf the whole night
~ Terri Guillemets
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I shall be in them.
~ Edvard Munch
life blooms right through death and they beautify each other
~ Terri Guillemets
Death is not poison but merely life's final remedy.
~ Terri Guillemets