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Quotes About Transformation

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1875
life is a graceful soaring death a graceful landing
~ Terri Guillemets
DEATH... To stop sinning suddenly.
~ Elbert Hubbard
You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.
~ Terri Guillemets
Let the dragon in your soul be the keeper of your dreams — and breathe fire on all those who dare to tread, including your own demons and laziness.
~ Terri Guillemets
I've dropped my Brain – My Soul is numb – The Veins that used to run Stop palsied – 'tis Paralysis Done perfecter in stone...
~ Emily Dickinson, c.1865
Our passions are true phœnixes: as the old burn out, the new straight rise up out of the ashes.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Time is the fire in which we burn.
~ Delmore Schwartz
Flowers rewrite soil, water, and sunshine into petal'd poetry.
~ Terri Guillemets
The most beautiful roses grow on graves.
~ German proverb
Revolutions are not made with rose water.
~ Latin proverb
Loss — the great redefiner of life.
~ Terri Guillemets
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
~ John Dryden
Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
~ Spanish proverb
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
~ Proverb
A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.
~ S.A. Sachs
Hope springs anew from the soil of suffering.
~ Terri Guillemets
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
~ Author Unknown
It was bewildering. He was sprawling through solidity. And ever the light grew brighter. Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
~ Jack London
But behold! As soon as I went out on the adventure-path I met John Barleycorn again.
~ Jack London
I oto zew doszedÅ' Bucka, nieomylny, zdobyty, prawdziwy. SiadÅ' wiÄ™c równie? i równie? zawyÅ'.
~ Jack London
La raza humana está destinada a internarse más y más en la noche de los tiempos primitivos, hasta que vuelva a empezar su sangrante marcha hacia la nueva civilización.
~ Jack London