Quotes About Transformation

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing." p. 5

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing.

Self-creation is a lifelong journey. Only by our actions do we learn who we want to become, how best to travel, and what else will need to change to ease the way.

Rarely does "becoming an ex" happen as a result of one sudden decision. Instead, it happens over a period of time, one that often begins before we are fully aware of what is happening.

McKenna uses this story of a drowning woman to illustrate how stubbornly we can hold ourselves back.

intimidad puede ser una carga insoportable para quienes, al experimentarla por primera vez después de una vida entera de autosuficiencia orgullosa, de pronto descubren que era lo que le faltaba a su mundo.

This, she told herself, was the beginning of madness. The mind becoming the flesh for its own teeth.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Now I was someone else. We knew each other in a way we no longer were and never would be again. Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you're so impossibly close is unbearable.

The cabbage white flies through the tailor's cheek. The tailor sinks his head. The cabbage white flies out of the back of the tailor's head, white and uncrumpled. Skinny Wilma flaps her handkerchief. The cabbage white flies through her forehead and into her head.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

One cannot turn back the clock but one can move it forward. (Gendo Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ep. 22, 23:55)

Night changed the streets. It dressed them in the mourning clothes named darkness, and applied the makeup called mystery.

When she lets go of me I feel that I don't need to offer to become a different person, it has happened already.

The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is to slip backwards.

England is always remaking herself, her cliffs eroding, her sandbanks drifting, springs bubbling up in dead ground. They regroup themselves while we sleep, the landscapes through which we move, and even the histories that trail us; the faces of the dead fade into other faces, as a spine of hills into the mist.

He cannot quite accept that real property cannot be changed into money with the same speed and ease with which he changes a wafer into the body of Christ.

We make great progress only at those times when we become melancholy—at those times when, discontented with the real world, we are forced to make for ourselves one more bearable. "The Theory of Ambition," an essay: JEAN-MARIE HÉRAULT DE SÉCHELLES

What was England, before Wolsey? A little offshore island, poor and cold.

The Revolution is your bride," he said. "As the Church is the Bride of Christ.

You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

transformed to the whisper of leaves in the forests of infancy: and like a hidden creature stirring from a leaf-bed, his mind stirs and turns