Quotes About Transformation

Here and now, I don't want to be Detroit Red. I want to slip the skin of this life, to be new and clean again.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Cuando yo es imposible para nosotros cambiar una situacion, el reto es cambiarnos a nosotros mismos.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Er erklärte mir, der Faschismus habe doch auch viele Menschen aus dem Proletariat getäuscht und sie müßten aufgeklärt, wie er sagte: 'umerzogen' werden, denn es handle sich um 'entwicklungsfähige Proletarier', die auf den richtigen Weg gebracht werden müßten.

Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog.

If I turn into another, dig me up from under what is covering the better me

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being...

Heads fall off from time to time Some of them old, some of them young The conductor hollers into the crowd: 'Keep moving forward to the back!

Think about your organization – or that of one of your clients – and ask yourself whether things would be done differently if it was being launched today.

Grenzt hier ein Wort an mich, so lass ich's grenzen. Liegt Böhmen noch am Meer, glaub ich den Meeren wieder. Und glaub ich noch ans Meer, so hoffe ich auf Land. Bin ich's, so ist's ein jeder, der ist soviel wie ich. Ich will nichts mehr für mich. Ich will zugrunde gehen. Zugrund - das heisst zum Meer, dort find ich Böhmen wieder. Zugrund gerichtet, wach ich ruhig auf. Von Grund auf weiss ich jetzt, und ich bin unverloren.

No new world without a new language.

What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness

I have lived in Ivan and die in Malina.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. - Ovid

Even a caterpillar gets to turn into a butterfly. Am I ever gonna be pretty, Daddy?

The wound is the place where the Light enters you." ?Rumi

Along with the other losses I've grieved in the past three years, I feel a deep pang of mourning for the death of the woman I used to be.

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal . My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry — with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.

Für mich hat jeder Mensch das Recht, sich zu verändern, und wenn jemand dabei ein wertvolles Mitglied einer Gesellschaft wird, dann soll er auch die damit verbundenen Chancen bekommen, sofern er sich klar von Vergehen distanziert und dafür gezahlt oder gebüßt hat. Ich habe jetzt acht harte Jahre hinter mir, mit allem, was man sich vorstellen kann, mit Bombendrohungen und Gerichtsverhandlungen, und denke schon, dass ich inzwischen einen Beitrag für diese Gesellschaft leiste.

HISTORICAL TIDBIT: In English, the term INFORM is taken from the Latin IN + FORMA, which meant "to put into [a] form." The term INFORMATION appeared in English at about 1387 at which time it referred to "formation or moulding of the mind or character, training, instruction, or teaching; communication of instructive knowledge." Somewhere

Theo's words had seeped into her and calmed her immediately. The 'we' had been an epiphany, revealing to her a new identity founded on the strength of love. It existed both inside her and outside, through Theo. Never again would there be emptiness. Mama Fina had been right: there was magic in words. The 'we' had eclipsed her fear.

Aquella tarde, bajo la maldita lluvia, acurrucada sobre mi infortunio, entendí que sin duda podía ser como ellos.