Quotes About Transformation

Like I was ever normal. Like I was ever any different from how I am now. A cure won't make me better. It'll just make me more like a regular son of a bitch. Like the Vyrus makes you into something else. It doesn't. If you get it, if you survive, it's because you were already the kind of person who will drink blood.

You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

Somehow, the city of promise had become a scrap yard of dreams.

making her frown. He quickly shifted back to mist

The idea of just adding women to things as they are is not nearly as likely to excite people as the idea that society as a whole could be different. To believe that the degradation of sexism and racism, the violence in our lives that we have today is not inevitable moves people to action.

we're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

Just bringing our full attention to what we are doing, and when we are done, we go home. But we are forever changed—while the performance is over, the music now lives within us.

When you feel hurt, confused, lonely, or sad, breathe into your pain, feel it, be with it, then breathe out an image of clarity, light, and a blessing. This alone will start to change your life.

To bring the human race, family by family, child by child, out of the savage and inhuman desolation where He is not, into the light and warmth and comfort of the presence of God, is, no doubt, the chief thing we have to do in the world.

If a given idea has been held in the human mind for many generations, as almost all our common ideas have, it takes sincere and continued effort to remove it; and if it is one of the oldest we have in stock, one of the big, common, unquestioned world ideas, vast is the labor of those who seek to change it.

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.

A "B" when you (be - here) and a "B" when you (be-gone ).

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

We won the war , the revolution begins now

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

Philosophers seek to understand the world; the point, however, is to change it.

Robbins had opened Gabby up. Her charred skin was peeled back, and her ribs were removed. She was pink inside, like steak that had been burned on a high heat but remained raw in the middle.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.

Last century's magic is this year's science.

Is this what we fled, when we left the ocean? Did we grow legs so we could run away?)

Vampirism is like Photoshop for the flesh – it fills out, rounds off, smooths over, and brightens up everything. I'Ve seen cancer patients turn into supermodels with a good undead infusion.