Quotes About Transformation

Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change To something new, to something strange; Nothing that is can pause or stay; The moon will wax, the moon will wane, The mist and cloud will turn to rain, The rain to mist and cloud again, To-morrow be to-day.

Maravilla ser solía, pero ya lástima doy; que de extremo a extremo voy y desde ser a no ser, pues sol me llamaba ayer y hoy sombra mía aun no soy.

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.

Belle turned around. She looked down at her hands, hardened with work. They might have been city hands once, but they weren't anymore, and they never would be again, no matter how much cream she slathered on them. She'd made a place for herself.

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State -- ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios -- burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man ... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.

I am ashes where once I was fire...

I hate the phrase "former porn queen." That part of my life was a long time ago. Think of something else to call me.

Put your dreams on the altar. They will be resurrected into something even grander.

Experience is like rhubarb. You got to add sugar to make a pie.

We are all potential fossils still carrying within our bodies the crudities of former existences, the marks of a world in which living creatures flow with little more consistency than clouds from age to age.

Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.

We are all potential fossils, still carrying within our bodies the crudites of former existences, the marks of a world in which living creatures flow with little more consistency than clouds from age to age. (As quoted by Richard Powers in The Echo Maker.

Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.

I had walked into Wilkinson a boy. Now, I wasn't at all sure who or what I was.

We are—or we become—what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful who we pretend to be.

Release what no longer serves you.

make a choice to change the narrative, to overwrite the patterns of history. That a person does not have to be defined by the past. Or by genetics. People can change.

The past doesn't always have to write the future.

Once that whole valley was sage scrub. Nothing more. Until one little beaver dammed a small stream." Silence. Wind rustles through autumn grasses. "A small act," he says quietly, "that reshaped the future." He looks at Ash. "The past doesn't always have to write the future.

Whatever the answers, I am now pushed up against the Monster I've been trying to hide from. And suddenly I face two paths. Just two choices: Either accept this and allow myself to be violated all over again—remain the Anonymous Girl and hide even deeper behind my masks and coping mechanisms. Or this time stand tall. Fight back. Be seen. No longer the ghost.

That you traveled as far away from this place as you possibly could, only to find yourself back, and it's all concertinaed down to nothing?

You had such promise, Katarina. You were top of your class in mathematics, in chemistry, physics. You won the English essay contest. You were on the honor roll. You could have been anything you wanted, but now you are a maid, cleaning up after other people.

Death card is a sign that you need to draw a line through the past in order to move forward. It says: Release what no longer serves you.