Quotes About Transformation

Life is filled with either problems or possibilities. When you look at a problem, but see opportunity instead, you become a powerful source that transforms grief into greatness. Don't be someone who goes through greater lengths to avoid change than you do to obtain what you desire. You must define and embrace the necessary changes that move you forward. Go beyond your discontent for what is, and instead focus on imagining and creating the best of what's possible.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.

He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober brightens up this world like the moon when freed from clouds.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.

Separation is not an event but it is a process involves enormous changes and loss

I see a red door and i want it painted black.

Tuning the lyre and handling the harp are no accomplishments of mine, but rather taking in hand a city that was small and inglorious and making it glorious and great.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

If all pleasure has, preserved within it, earlier pain, then here pain, as pride in bearing it, is raised directly, untransformed, as a stereotype, to pleasure: unlike wine, each glass of whisky, each inhalation of cigar smoke, still recalls the repugnance that it cost the organism to become attuned to such strong stimuli, and this alone is registered as pleasure.

Une philosophie transformée devrait casser cette prétention, ne plus faire croire à elle-même et aux autres qu'elle dispose de l'infini. Mais au lieu de cela c'est elle qui, subtilement comprise deviendrait infinie dans la mesure où elle dédaignerait de se fixer dans un corpus de théorèmes dénombrables.

Important artworks constantly divulge new layers, they age, grow cold and die.

Aufgearbeitet wäre die Vergangenheit erst dann, wenn die Ursachen des Vergangenen beseitigt wären. Nur weil die Ursachen fortbestehen, ward sein Bann bis heute nicht gebrochen.

When I was a lark, I sang;When I was a worm, I devoured.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

I do not laugh; I do not cry; I'm sweating out the will to die. My past is sliding down the drain; I soon will be myself again.

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.

Change the prevailing mode of consciousness and you change the world.

The youthful disaffiliation of our time strikes beyond ideology to the level of consciousness, seeking to transform our deepest sense of the self, the other, and the environment.