Quotes About Transformation

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

Change is the very nature of nature.

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.