Quotes About Transformation

You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

Will they be the same, my lord?

At this signal, the world turns upside down.

Once, when Tom was over here, to tease Rose, I asked him, "Before she was born, can you remember? Were things just the same as they are these days? Did it still rain and get dark and all the stuff it does now? Did the sun go up and down in exactly the same way?" Yes," Tom said, and then he smiled at Rose and said, "No. Not really. Not exactly the same way.

You surely won't turn him into a frog?" asked the Queen. (For this had been known to happen in royal families before.) "Certainly not!" said the Dust Grey Fairy. "I'm sure he would enjoy it, lurking around the lily leaves waiting to be kissed, but he would learn no manners at all!" "Nor send him to sleep for a hundred years?" "That's for girls only," said the Dust Grey Fairy. "Boys are lazy enough as it is." "True, true," admitted the Queen.

And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.

Dynamism is a function of change.

To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it" (Rev. 2:17).

Main gangu teli ko doon raj,Gadhon ke sar pe rakh doon taj (I'll make the laziest person as the king, I'll place the crown on the heads of donkeys)

The lake no longer water holds? Off fly the fowls, the lilies stay: If friends are friends when wealth is gone, The lily?s constancy they share.

When someone insults you, even murder is forgivable? I see. What you told me is very important. You insulted that innocent old man's life. So I changed one of your guns into a banana. You should savor your last meal as best you can.

G]li uomini sono vigliacchi. Hanno paura di quello che non vedono e non capiscono, e per placare quella paura trovano spiegazioni senza senso. Per questo tua madre è stata uccisa. Perché lei sapeva parlare con gli oni . Allora l'hanno accusata d'essere la reincarnazione d'una volpe. Ma una volpe non si trasformerebbe mai in un essere umano. Se potesse mutare aspetto, sceglierebbe un animale.

È un errore che non dimenticherò. Tutto il male nasce dalla debolezza. E io negavo la mia debolezza ferendo coloro che mi si paravano davanti. Ma sono cambiato quand'ho incontrato quel tipo… Per questo sono stato trafitto. Volevo purificarmi. Non m'interessa se vivo o muoio, ma se l'anima di suo fratello può essere salvata… E se posso lavare la mia colpa…

Since the day I first met you, you've given me so many precious things. If I hadn't met you, I would never have become the person I am today.

Nothing ever happens here. But when it does, it happens at the speed of lightning. You can change the world in a day. It might take forty-two years for that day to come, but when it does…

Maybe he saw his imprisonment, removal from the army and temporary banishment as natural repercussions—perhaps even reversible—of the country's historical transformation.

ty var människas handstil förändras oavbrutet, en liten smula vart år, kanske omärkligt för henne själv, men lika oundvikligt och säkert som ansiktet, hållningen, rörelserna, själen.

After the rain, good weather. In the wink of an eye, the universe throws off its muddy clothes.

I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor? One piece at a time.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

You didn't get what you deserved, but you don't have to live inside that one story forever. No one's heart has to remain stone.