Quotes About Transformation

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself, and it is, therefore, the most powerful and valuable form of energy in the universe. For a time, the spirit may become flesh, but when that phase of its existence is at an end, it will be transformed into a disembodied spirit once more.

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.

Men and women who seek to become gods must first lose their humanity.

Only catastrophe can bring about radical change for the better.

she halts, gripped by the intuitive perception that her island has changed.

The penitent face of the religieuse collapsed into the greedy hookworm maw, as though it ate its own false countenance

He said, "Sometimes it takes a lot of distance to be able to fold a piece of your life into a work of fiction.

until it isn't.

After twenty-six months on Jacob's Ladder, her fear has largely faded

This country is ours. America is over. Arcadia is rising in its place.

He doesn't wear gloves and won't bother to wipe down any surfaces prior to leaving, for he has no fingerprints. They were removed with the application of a series of lightly applied acids and CO2 laser treatments

The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.

Consumed or purified by fire.

She told him that she wished he would come to life for her, the way that he had come to life in the wonderful story, and she really did wish it, want it, need it. She could so clearly see him rising from the page of the book as he had risen from the baker's tray before setting out into the city. When the incident began, it was pure Disney. But not for long.

Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine. You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind. She

But it may also mean that the visible can be born from the invisible, that matter can arise from energy, that thought is a form of energy and that thought itself can be concretized into the very object that is imagined.

If envious humanity sought godlike power and fell from grace, it might be true that some race before us did the same, that we share this broken world with predators who were once beings of light and promise, but transformed themselves into creatures that worship the outer dark and wish the world to be one vast graveyard.

You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind.

I'm Shelly Framington. But call me Sarah. I don't like who Shelly was, what she did.

it's likely that Francesca isn't even human anymore

Loneliness is the fate of he who dares to change the world.

books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all.

Where an owner showed pride in his home, the fresh paint, the upright picket fence, the well-barbered shrubs only emphasized the debris, decay, and dilapidation that characterized the surrounding properties. Each island of order did not offer hope of a community-wide transformation, but instead seemed to be a dike that could not long hold back an inevitably rising tide of chaos.

God imagines the world, and the world becomes." Romanovich said, "Well, we know that matter can be transformed to energy, as burning oil produces heat and light—" "As