Quotes About Transformation

Now the purpose of her stories had changed. She spun them to discover their meaning. In the telling, she found, you reached a point where you could not go back, where—as the stories changed—it transformed you, too.

Deine Anpassungsfäheigkeit—Your ability to adapt," her husband said, "is far more dangerous to you than any of them will ever be. You'll keep adapting and adapting until nothing is left.

I'll give you . . ." He paused and made a flourishing gesture with both hands. ". . . a thousand dollars!" It was bad enough, thought Molly, that he thought she would sell Castle Hangnail. But for such an insultingly low price? "How about I give you a thousand legs?" she asked. "It'll require turning you into a millipede, but I think I can manage it.

One should be abnormal to make things normal

Use heart energy, transform and create - reclaim your sovereignty

und weil sie schon vorher gewusst hatte dass Freiheit nicht das Anderskönnen bedeutet sondern das Andersmüssen...

Holz splitterte zierlich unter den Raupenketten, [...]

Other days when he has come from or doesn't want to go to a shift at work, he is wild, sucking away everything I thought I knew about the way I'm supposed to be in this world. I feel like a star caught in the gravitational pull of a black hole, unraveling, spinning under the control of some unseen force, torn into streams of fire forever spiraling, never to be put together again.

You cannot unsee what has been seen once the veil is lifted, Reverend Olumide says in church. We cannot return to the garden of Eden. When I meet with him he says I need to confront my fears, that the devil torments us with that which scares us most. So, I cross the line between the blue hallways tiles and the white locker-room floor and navigate my way to locker number thirty-two.

Africa has no future.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

Et sie minnuu tunne? Mie olen Rokan Antti. Pienmaanviljelijä Kannakselt. Nykyään Tikkakosken mannekiini.

It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul.

Sitten hän kysyi Vanhalalta virallisen tärkeällä äänellä: – Korpraali Vanhala. Oletteko te lammas vai suomalainen sotamies? – Minä olen mailman paras metsätaistelija, hihi… – Niinpä niin. Honkajoki huokasi muka surkean alistuvasti. – Yksi toivo minulla vielä on. Kunpa sota loppuisi ja pääsisi isoon taloon sonniksi.

The Dandelion" O dandelion, rich and haughty, King of village flowers! Each day is coronation time, You have no humble hours. I like to see you bring a troop To beat the blue-grass spears, To scorn the lawn-mower that would be Like fate's triumphant shears. Your yellow heads are cut away, It seems your reign is o'er. By noon you raise a sea of stars More golden than before.

The only thing holier than a crucifixion is a resurrection.

I have faith that the shift in my physicality is crucial to the growth in my spirituality. When one sense weakens, another grows strong.

If a man lives without inner struggle, if everything happens in him without opposition, if he goes wherever he is drawn or wherever the wind blows, he will remain such as he is. But if a struggle begins in him, and particularly if there is a definite line in this struggle, then, gradually, permanent traits begin to form themselves, he begins to 'crystallise'…Crystallisation is possible on any foundations.

The more I got to know you, the more I began to see that something was missing. Something I had convinced myself that I didn't need.

because it requires the total surrender of my will and finally, ultimately, the wholesale destruction of my ego. That is hard. It I'm going to another world, I cry out, I want to be ME in it.

Sometimes we need to allow ourselves to break down so we can choose different bricks to build ourselves back up.

In spite of myself, I kept tunneling under and out, carrying secret, scary, confusing discoveries back in with me until, finally, I got to a place where I stood and looked back, and the walls looked to me like a prison instead of a sanctuary.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.