Quotes About Transformation

Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.

A whole new life at fifty, all because I had become entranced with both the Turkish culture and with Kazim—who one friend called a careening festival of a human being and another called an alcoholic Kurdish carpet salesman. I called him a catalyst.

was sometimes good to revisit what you were so that you could compare it to what you had become.

himself like a comet." "A supernova," Venable said. "He went back to traditional values

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Albert Einstein said that a problem cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.

Vater unser, mach mir noch mit einem Wunder eine feine Bildung - das Ãœbrige kann ich ja selbst machen mit Schminke.

We'll mark the butterflies disappearing over the hedge with tiny wristwatches on their wings: our fingers touching the earth, like two Buddhas

By walking I found out Where I was going. By intensely hating, how to love. By loving, whom and what to love. By grieving, how to laugh from the belly. Out of infirmity, I have built strength. Out of untruth, truth. From hypocrisy, I wove directness. Almost now I know who I am. Almost I have the boldness to be that man. Another step And I shall be where I started from.

reception room. Mr. Razin will bring you further instructions." No sooner had she left the office than Petrov pointed his chair toward Alex Razin. "Well, Razin, what do you think?" "Of her? As you said—she is nearly perfect. Let her hair grow longer, eliminate the small cheek scar, shorten the nose slightly, and she is Billie Bradford." "No, I mean my story. Did she believe it?

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.

So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm.

We can change by changing our attitudes and patterns of behavior. In so doing, we change our destiny.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

I più celebrati utopisti dei tempi moderni... offrono un quadro pressochè statico degli attributi essenziali dell'uomo e, di conseguenza, una descrizione altrettanto statica della società perfetta ritenuta raggiungibile. Con ciò essi ignorano il carattere degli uomini in quanto esseri che si autotrasformano, che sono capaci di libere scelte - entro i limiti imposti dalla natura e dalla storia - fra scopi contrastanti e reciprocamente incompatibili.

Yes. You see, it's not 1 of those germs that break bleed suck gnaw or devour. It's nothing we can bring into focus or categorize; once we call it 1 thing it forms into something else.

And everything would be different, different.

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?