Quotes About Transformation

Eso es la libertad. Tener una pasión, amontonar monedas de oro, y repentinamente dominar la pasión y arrojar el tesoro a todos los vientos. Liberarse de una pasión para someterse a otra, más noble. Pero, ¿no es ésta, también, una forma de esclavitud?

All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present.

What happened to the crow, Zorba? Well, you see, he used to walk respectably, properly - well, like a crow. But one day he got it into his head to try and strut about like a pigeon. And from that time the poor fellow couldn't for the life of him recall his own way of walking. He was all mixed up, don't you see? He just hobbled about.

Our body is a ship that sails on deep blue waters. What is our goal? To be shipwrecked!

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men. I'm not one of the worst, boss, nor yet one of the best. I'm somewhere in between the two. What I eat I turn into work and good humor. That's not too bad, after all!

The seed is saved—what do we mean by "saved"? It frees the God within it by blossoming, by bearing fruit, by returning to earth once more. Let us help the seed to save itself. 20.

Toate lucrurile au devenit cuvinte, toate cuvintele au devenit jocuri muzicale È™i acum ultimul om st? la marginea pustiului È™i descompune muzica în ecuaÈ›ii matematice mute.

Nu È™tiam, trebuie s? recunosc. ?tiam bine doar ce s-ar pr?buÈ™i; habar n-aveam însp de ce se va în?lÈ›a pe ruine.

in your heart life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

Dios cambia de rostros, y dichoso aquel que puede distinguirlo detrás de cada máscara. A veces es un vaso de agua fresca, a veces un hijo que brinca sobre nuestras rodillas, a veces una mujer coqueta y a veces un breve paseo matutino.

there are those who aim at living the life of the entire universe - everything, men, animals, trees, stars, we are all one, we are all one substance involved in the same terrible struggle. What struggle?... Turning matter into spirit.

Each man acquires the stature of the enemy with whom he wrestles.

Eu, baiete, vad civilizatiile cum vede un poet norii de pe cer, care urca, cresc, se umfla de ploaie, de furtuni si de fulgere; apoi sufla un vanticel, norii isi schimba forma, se fugaresc, se disloca, luand foc la apusul soarelui, risipindu-se la suflarea vantului. Ai putea sa privesti astfel civilizatiile, oamenii, zeii? E foarte greu, dar incearca baiete, curaj!

Till now, I told myself, You have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance.

God shouts: "Burn your houses! I am coming! Whoever has a house cannot receive me! 29. Ã¢â'¬Å"Burn your ideas, smash your thoughts! Whoever has found the solution cannot find me. 30. Ã¢â'¬Å"I love the hungry, the restless, the vagabonds. They are the ones who brood eternally on hunger, on rebellion, on the endless road—on ME! 31. Ã¢â'¬Å"I am coming! Leave your wives, your children, your ideas, and follow me. I am the great Vagabond.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Fumum Vendidi

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life. Inland, the prospect alters.

the radical pacifist message of the Gospels [was] largely abandoned when the Emperor Constantine, in the fourth century, adopted Christianity as the official doctrine of the Roman empire — turning the church of the persecuted into the church of the persecutors, as historian of Christianity Hans Küng described the transformation.

Una reforma de los primeros niveles de la educación podía provocar cambios sociales significativos.

History doesn't go in a straight line... Over time there's a kind of a general trajectory towards a more just society, with regressions and reversals of course.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

I remember thinking that no one had ever told me how much I would love my child; now, of course, I realized something else no one tells you: that a child is a grenade. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was.