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Quotes About Transformation

Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn." How
~ Paulo Coelho
Changes only happen when we go totally against everything we're used to doing.
~ Paulo Coelho
En los cuentos infantiles, las princesas besan a los sapos, que se transforman en príncipes. En la vida real, las princesas besan a los príncipes, que se transforman en sapos.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sólo el amor nos permite escapar y transformar la esclavitud en libertad
~ Paulo Coelho
And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.
~ Paulo Coelho
Toda bendición no aceptada se transforma en maldición
~ Paulo Coelho
How the path was forged
~ Paulo Coelho
What is learning: accumulating knowledge? Or transforming our lives?
~ Paulo Coelho
So it was in life. In order for the more substantial pieces of wood to catch fire, the kindling must burn first. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. In order for us to understand the powers we carry within us and the secrets that have already been revealed, it was first necessary to allow the surface expectations, fears, appearances – to be burned away.
~ Paulo Coelho
If there was no change, there would be no universe.
~ Paulo Coelho
Todos los días Dios nos da un momento en que es posible cambiar todo lo que nos hace infelices. El instante mágico es el momento en que un sí o un no pueden cambiar toda nuestra existencia.
~ Paulo Coelho
God gives us the sun and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we havent perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist- that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows.
~ Paulo Coelho
Quien ama necesita saber perderse y encontrarse.
~ Paulo Coelho
Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.
~ Paulo Coelho
The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.
~ Paulo Coelho
He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet
~ Unknown
Discomfort is always a necessary part of the process of enlightenment.
~ Pearl Cleage
Love changes," she replied. "When the flame dies, the glow remains, but it no longer centers upon one human creature and it warms the whole soul. Then the soul looks at all human creatures with love diffused.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Peter groaned loudly. Sonia Pan! She's ugly. Mris. Liang would not yield. Ugly girls can be fixed now. It is not like before. And she is very good. She does not waste money. It would be no use for her to waste money on herself, Louise murmured.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Nothing is destroyed, only changed.
~ Pearl S. Buck
At that hour of deep loathing she was healed of all her heat and youth, and she was young no more.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time—that is the basic message.
~ Pema Chodron