Quotes About Transformation

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to, Josef says. If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you will become that person.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

There are all sorts of losses people suffer—from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external...

Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.

Falling is the first step in learning how to fly.

Like most other events that change the world, it didn't seem interesting to anyone except the people willing to do the work.

Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.

If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'

I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

Every unknown road leads to destinations that could turn your life around.