Quotes About Transformation

He had finally got money, he had taken off his moustache, he was driving a car that few could afford, he was a new man. But the world failed to recognise him as such.

We rise, we fall. We may rise by falling. Defeat shapes us. Our only wisdom is tragic, known to late, and only to the lost.

without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.

The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?

We are always the person we were, and we grow into someone very different, if we live long enough. Both things are true.

And in that moment Dianora had a truth brought home to her with finality: how something can seem quite unchanged in all the small surface details of existence where things never really change, men and women being what they are, but how the core, the pulse, the kernel of everything can still have become utterly unlike what it had been before.

His intelligence stretched her to the limits, and then changed what those limits were.

We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

They'd been painful against her spine…she's more accustomed to them now. A person, a woman, can adapt to more than she might of thought she could; what she's unsure about is when that stops being a virtue and turns to something else.. leaving you too much changed, undefined, unanchored… like a fisherman's empty boat drifting on a river, with no way to be returned to where it belongs.

Men changed during wars or conflict, sometimes beyond recognition. Tai

painted moth-eyebrows

As soon as the creatures were destroyed he could learn to live again.

Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

The timecracks into furious flower. Lifts its faceall unashamed. And sways in wicked grace.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air." ? Gwendolyn Brooks

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

The presiding spirit of Welsh history has been the shape-shifter Gwydion the Magician, who always changed his shape and always stayed the same.

Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If you don't obey it as a force in your life, it will tear you to pieces.

Our task over the next few generations is to transform the world of independent states in which we live into some sort of genuine international community. If we succeed in creating that community, however quarrelsome, discontented, and full of injustice it probably will be, then we shall effectively have abolished the ancient institution of warfare. Good riddance.

Change is the salt in the soup of life.