Quotes About Transformation

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.

In the coppice, leaves were quietly and majestically floating earthwards in the pomp of death.

Me gusta pensar que en otro tiempo fui un magnífico ejemplar peludo que vivía en los árboles y que mi cuerpo procede, a lo largo de un tiempo geológico, de la medusa, los gusanos y anfioxos, peces, dinosaurios y monos. ¿Quién querría cambiar eso por la pálida pareja del Jardín del Edén?

I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

this is the white wind that you cannot believe here it is and the owl sails out to see whose turn it is tonight to be changed

The gods are what has failed to become of us

Place" On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree what for not the fruit the tree that bears the fruit is not the one that was planted I want the tree that stands in the earth for the first time with the sun already going down and the water touching its roots in the earth full of the dead and the clouds passing one by one over its leaves

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree what for not for the fruit the tree that bears the fruit is not the one that was planted I want the tree that stands in the earth for the first time with the sun already going down and the water touching its roots in the earth full of the dead and the clouds passing one by one over its leaves

In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree — W.S. Merwin, from "Wild Oats," The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)

O nobly-born, listen on distractedly. On the Second Day [of death] the pure form of water will shine as a white light.

I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

No change, no chance.

I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are.

And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order.

I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.

Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

You can make startling changes you can't even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.

In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

To see something different gives you a chance to be something different!

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.