Quotes About Transformation

To give the history of a wicked life repented of, necessarily requires that the wicked part should be make as wicked as the real history of it will bear, to illustrate and give a beauty to the penitent part, which is certainly the best and brightest, if related with equal spirit and life.

It's not the highs along the way that matter. It's who you become.

An altered trait—a new characteristic that arises from a meditation practice—endures apart from meditation itself.

La capacidad emocional, pues, no constituye un dato inmutable puesto que, con el aprendizaje adecuado, puede modificarse.

There is much to be said for the constructive contribution of suffering to creative and spiritual life; suffering can temper the soul.

Si quieres cambiar el mundo, primero intenta mejorar, hacer un cambio dentro de ti. Así contribuirás a cambiar a tu familia y a partir de ahí el cambio se expandirá - Dalai Lama.

A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says. She walks down the streets and the storefronts look the same, even as we linger on their flickering reflections. The cars move quickly, slowly, quickly down the block. She gets coffee and says it tastes different, quitely, to herself.

Love-is this something we can learn to do again, and if so, when will that time arrive, even on a bad day? When do you know when something is becoming something that changes you?

Unlike the Western world of a surprising Creation, of man at war with nature, the world of Confucius transformed by Taoist and Buddhist currents saw man at home among transformations, procreations, and re-creations.

How could losing everything be so bad if losing everything brought me this? It

I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—

Estava tudo bem enquanto eles pudessem rir de mim e parecer inteligentes à minha custa, mas agora eles se sentiam inferiores ao imbecil. Comecei a ver que, por meio do meu surpreendente crescimento, eu os fiz encolher e enfatizei suas inadequações. Eu os havia traído, e eles me odiavam por isso.

Antes, riam de mim, desprezando-me por minha ignorância e estupidez; agora, eles me odiavam por meu conhecimento e compreensão.

Não sou apenas uma coisa, mas também uma maneira de ser – uma das muitas maneiras –, e saber os caminhos que percorri e os que me restam vai me ajudar a entender o que estou me tornando.

I still hear her. But perhaps I had been released. Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in, but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now. Was I free?

I am not only a thing, but also a way of being-one of many ways- and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

Você não pode construir um novo edifício em uma área até destruir o que existia antes, e o antigo Charlie não pode ser destruído. Ele existe.

Holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time.

I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.

still hear her. But perhaps I had been released. Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in, but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now. Was I free?

I wasn't his son. That was another Charlie. Intelligence and knowledge had changed me, and he would resent me---as the others from the bakery resented me---because my growth diminished him.

Sou como um homem que passou a vida inteira semiadormecido, tentando descobrir como ele era antes de acordar