Quotes About Transformation

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

Glauben Sie ernstlich'[...]'daß wir dieses Volk nicht wieder werden zu Menschen machen können?

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

I see now what they mean by "holding your head high," and I am sometimes surprised by how much interior transformation a ramrod posture can afford. When I stand physically proud, I feel a small measure less mortified.

violence is anything an airplane can do to a cloud

Time hangs off me like molting skin.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not to a different airport.

Speak of the devil. Luella had wandered in wearing what might once have been a stylish frock, but the hem was shredded from her having torn at it, and the sky-blue fabric was encrusted with food. The bloop of her stomach echoed the bulge of an adult diaper at the rear. Carter had grown accustomed to this decayed incarnation of his father's second wife, but fifteen years earlier the shock had been profound.

so i wasn't only afraid of becoming my mother, but a mother.

Your honeybunch may not be able to make you feel all warm and gooey inside anymore," Deacon said. "But the ability to fuck you up, well--it's the last magic power to go.

Jarred had started out a radical environmentalist, a position only ninety degrees from survivalist. With one small last adjustment in the same direction, he transformed to libertarian gun nut.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

If capitalism persists for several more centuries, as seems to be highly likely, then from the vantage point of the future, capitalism may be seen as the system responsible for the transformation of the human condition from one of mass subsistence to mass prosperity.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

Outward pressure is always an opportunity to be inwardly transformed.

Death is the force that will create your new life. It is a mechanism of transformation. Welcome it.

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

Raimon was amused to see that the countess Carenza grew more beautiful by the day: her expression has softened and the pouches under her eyes had disappeared. She carried herself confidently, secure in the knowledge that she was fascinating to one pair of eyes at least.

But once we have a practice for taming our Imposters, we're able to get in touch with a much bigger star in the constellation of our lives: the Authentic Soul.

By awakening and embodying one's childhood self, something starts to shift in his adult self.