Quotes About Transformation

movements never quite exist, they are passages, intermediaries between two existences, moments of weakness, I expected to see them come out of nothingness, progressively ripen, blossom: I was finally going to surprise beings in the process of being born.

If I were ever to go on a trip, I think I should make written notes of the slightest traits of my character before leaving, so that when I returned I would be able to compare what I was and what I had become.

The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere.

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

But the end is there, transforming everything. For us, the man is already the hero of the story. His moroseness, his money troubles are much more precious than ours, they are all gilded by the light of future passions.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort.

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

My body is a gradual work of art

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.

A person is what is his life; if that person doesn't modify nothing inside himself, if he doesn't transform radically his life, if he doesn't work upon himself, then he is wasting miserably his time.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Grace could not have done it's curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.