Quotes About Transformation

Richard Lovelace's book Dynamics of Spiritual Life

We sow the seed of deadly nightshade and wish it to bear lilies and roses!

If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

Transform Yourself to Transform the World

Since World War II, we have known that the old man—the consuming man, the purely technological man, the wholly materialistic man—must die. Our problem has been that no one better has come forward to take his place.

Grace Lee Boggs

If you want to make a revolution in the United States, you have to love this country enough to change it.

She had a feeling as she listened that she had been sitting in a dark place all her life, and that during the last three weeks light had slowly begun to break. It seemed that tonight the light was like glory all around her. These people actually lived with God, referred everything to Him, wanted nothing that He did not send. They were in a distinct and startling sense a separated people, and she was beginning to long with all her heart that she might truly be one with them.

I have crossed an ocean I have lost my tongue from the root of the old one a new one has sprung

One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon't do anything at all.Go ask AliceWhen she's ten feet tall.

There was a Gracia I barely knew existed: fearful Gracia, selfish Gracia, bitter Gracia, angry-at-God Gracia. That wasn't the only me, but it was a bigger part of me than I wanted to accept.

Queria endurecer o coração, eliminar o passado, fazer com ele o que faço quando emendo um período — riscar, engrossar os riscos e transformá-los em borrões, suprimir todas as letras, não deixar vestígio de idéias obliteradas.

She turned me into a newt. ... But I got better...

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?

He looked like a once-green leaf that had begun to dry and to reveal the structure of its veins.

That was my first real experience at feeling set apart. Not only did I not knock them dead, but rather it was I that died...acutely aware of being mutton dressed up as lamb. I exchanged my white tie and tails for a white waiter's jacket and got back to my proper calling!

Going from the pursuit of perfection in all things to ultimate depravity isn't a journey anybody makes in one step, it's a series of small ones – each one justifiable in its own isolated way. But after you've taken a hundred of those small steps, you're a long way from who you were at the start.

A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself.

Souls always do recognize themselves. It is the humanness that surrounds and embodies the soul that fails to recognize or make sense of the wonderment that dwells and resides at the center of whom we are; who we need to become.

Rock and roll was not just a revolution in musical style; it was a primary embodiment of a transformation in the way many people, in America and elsewhere, lived, felt about, and thought about their lives and their relation to immediate experience.

As Palmer observes: "Plato warned in his Republic that changes in the modes and rhythms of popular music inevitably lead to changes in society at large,"[100] and this originary moment of rock and roll seems to be one of the clearest cases in musical history of a fundamentally new rhythmic, and thus affective, mode catalyzing an equally fundamental cultural transformation.

You have given them an ideal to aspire to, embodied their highest aspirations. They will race, and stumble, and fall and crawl....and curse....and finally.... They will join you in the sun, Kal-El. They will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time you will help them accomplish wonders.

As the Grateful Dead said, and writers' can attest to: Sometimes the light is shining on me, other times I can barely see; but lately, its occurred to me-What A Long Strange Trip Its Been.