Quotes About Transformation

Sometimes, just when you think everything's gone, you find a way." Mia racked her mind for an explanation. "Like after a prairie fire. I saw one, years ago, when we were in Nebraska. It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow.

Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too.

Something inside Izzy reached out to something in her and caught fire.

But after the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow.

This baby name May Ling. Please take this baby and give her a better life. That first night, when the baby had finally fallen asleep in their laps, Mr. and Mrs. McCullough spent two hours flipping through the name dictionary. It had not occurred to them, then or at any point until now, to regret the loss of her old name.

At the sight of her on the phone, a lightness crossed his face, like clouds shifting after strong wind. She saw him as he must have looked when he was young, long before she had been born: boyishly hopeful, possibilities turning his eyes into stars.

Did you have to burn down the old to make way for the new?

Às vezes, quando você acha que tudo está perdido, encontra uma saída. (...) É como um incêndio florestal. (...) Parece o fim do mundo. A terra fica toda queimada e preta, e todo o verde some. Mas, depois de queimar, o solo fica mais rico e coisas novas podem crescer ali. (...) As pessoas também são assim, sabe? Elas recomeçam. Dão um jeito.

His skin feels too small for his thoughts.

with the idea of starting over, so nearly all of her work has to do with change or transformation in some

in Mia's accepting presence she'd become curious and kind and open, as if under a magic spell. She had felt, finally, as if she could speak without immediately bumping into the hard shell of her sheltered life, as if she suddenly saw that the solid walls penning her in were actually bars, with spaces between them wide enough to slip through.

There is so much more to do, so much yet to be mended.

Ac?lar hat?rala??nca güzelle?ir.

Gitmek, kaderin hatalar?n? düzeltmektir.

Tanzimattan beri haz?r elbiseye merakl?y?z, haz?r elbise ve haz?r medeniyete… (Ma?aradakiler, s,314)

And we, as human beings, are capable of creating positive changes in our lives through intent."14

Someone who has suffered is no longer the same.

A veces una mujer encuentra los restos de un barco hecho pedazos y decide hacer con ellos un hombre sano. En ocasiones lo consigue. Otras veces una mujer encuentra un hombre sano y decide hacerlo pedazos. Siempre lo consigue.

Katkada žena prona?e olupinu i odlu?i od nje napraviti zdrava ?ovjeka. To joj ponekad uspije. Katkada žena susretne zdrava ?ovjeka i odlu?i od njega napraviti olupinu. To joj uvijek uspije.

Quello era tutto il mio passato, insopportabile eppure così diverso, così morto. M'ero detta tante volte in quegli anni - e poi più avanti, ripensandoci - che lo scopo della mia vita era proprio di riuscire, di diventare qualcuna, per tornare un giorno in quelle viuzze dov'ero stata bambina e godermi il calore, lo stupore, l'ammirazione di quei visi familiari, di quella piccola gente. E c'ero riuscita, tornavo; e le facce la priccola gente eran tutti scomparsi.

According to the Buddhist tradition, the spiritual path is the process of cutting through our confusion, of uncovering the awakened state of mind. When the awakened state of mind is crowded in by ego and its attendant paranoia, it takes on the character of an underlying instinct. So it is not a matter of building up the awakened state of mind, but rather of burning out the confusions which obstruct it. In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment.

The author presents practical advice, but not quick fixes. He is trying to help us fundamentally transform our lives and our perceptions so that we can conquer fear, not simply suppress it for a time. To become truly fearless, he suggests, we must stop running from our fear and begin to make friends with it. We must learn to smile at fear.

The situations of fear that exist in our lives provide us with stepping stones to step over our fear. On the other side of cowardice is bravery. If we step over properly, we can cross the boundary from being cowardly to being brave.

However, nobody is going to do it for you. You have to begin by yourself, so maybe you should be startled. You should be shocked when you realize that you have been trapped and imprisoned, because then you might do something about it. You have been too naive. You have enjoyed your samsaric life too much. You should have been shocked a long time ago!