Quotes About Transformation

I am not Undine for Undine or the Little Mermaid sold her glory for feet. Undine (or the Little Mermaid) couldn't speak after she sold her glory. I will not sell my glory.

Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies. -- Timothy Leary

Before we can create change, we have to decide something needs to change. Before we can decide something needs to change, we have to accept it as it is. Before we can accept it as it is, we have to be aware of its existence. Awareness is the beginning of all creation.

Growth is impossible if we continue to do things the same way

Spiritual awakening happens when we stop resisting

To change a failure into a success requires a change in perspective

We can choose to continue with the existing reality, or we can choose to change the world we live in by learning, by evolving, by becoming conscious of our programs, and re-writing them as needed to create what we want. Simply, we cannot realize who we truly are by remaining who we have been. And so it is collectively. It is up to us to change ourselves. It is up to us to change the world.

We cannot get over something while resisting it

You don't know what you don't know. Until you do, and then you will never be the same

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

The true revolution can only occur within the heart.

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.

Your goal is to wash the minds of your people in the Word so that Christ is formed in them. That's biblical preaching.

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

Hij kwam binnen in de lappenjas van een afkorting N.S.M.A.N.N. (Nederlandse Schrijver van Marokkaanse Afkomst met Nederlandse Nationaliteit), maar ging weer weg, na een goede rui, een verlies van overbodige veren, als auteur. Hij is stukken magerder geworden, maar gelukkiger. Noem hem voortaan simpelweg auteur.

To quench that thirst, Ward would become a human

The prism of time refracts the light into thousands of rays. I stand with my hands open and embrace them. p. 94

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

Unless South Africa is

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.

She has to be written out of history and written into myth.

A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old films, he said -- when you see this old parchment map just ... getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just ... fwoom.

A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old movies, he said - when you see this old parchment map just… getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just… fwoom

I'm not like that, he says. I'm not a … Fairy? –Every time you say that, I whisper, a little part of you will die.