Quotes About Transformation

But you are not sure it is possible to outgrow the things that have built you from nothing into something.

This small combination of atoms, one nitrogen and two oxygens, NO2, attached at the right position, has vastly increased our ability to wage war, changed the fate of nations, and literally allowed us to move mountains.

todos nós sabemos com África sabe se transformar naquela que cada um tem dentro de si.

Sunset Shimmer

The sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external self-awareness

It might be compared to some organism which sloughs off its old skin, or texture, in order to live again. It is a city which has the ability to dance upon its own ashes.

The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people of Venice now identified themselves more in terms of the city. The private had become public.

In the end the natives would be so mixed and mingled with the new settlers that the term Saxon or Angle ceased to have any meaning. All would become English.

I mould him as the Baker moulds the Dough before he pops it in the Oven.

Streoneshalch was renamed as Whitby, and Northworthig became Derby.

My grandmother's hands floated like wings of bone in the dark, then they were birds, then small disks of light and then bones again, and then it was dawn.

What had once seemed shallow and tedious now loomed in memory like paradise.

If leaders are unable to slough off yesterday, to abandon yesterday, they simply will not be able to create tomorrow.

We may not understand the reason for it; indeed, we often cannot figure it out. Still, an incongruity is a symptom of an opportunity to innovate.

Success always makes obsolete the very behavior that achieved it. It always creates new realities. It always creates, above all, its own and different problems. Only the fairy tale ends, "They lived happily ever after.

At one point quantity turned into quality.

Stephen summarizes, "It's when you look back and you learn how much you've grown and changed.

En la habitación de la niña tuvo la sensación de despedirse de algo, no de la niña, sino de la manera de vivir que hasta ahora le había correspondido vivir. Ya no existía ninguna manera de vivir para él.

You're shrinking Gilbert, you're shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!

Bettering your life, getting a fresh start, the bright side. Spout these concepts daily and you will survive in Endora; you might even thrive.

It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you've lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging, less threatening. Alaska had enlarged each of us. No one is ever the same after coming back from Alaska.

Prayer is not only conversation, it is transformation. It is not only light, it is fire. And the closer you get to Him, the hotter the fire gets. Words begin to melt. The first word that melts in His presence is the word 'I.' That is His unique name. The closer you get to Him, the harder it is to begin a sentence with 'I.' It melts in the fire of 'thou.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life?until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.