Quotes About Transformation

y todo, hervidero de abejas, velos, nubes de humo, le parecía a Cosimo un encantamiento que aquel hombre trataba de suscitar para desaparecer de allí, borrarse, volar lejos, y luego, renacer siendo otro, o en otro tiempo, o en otro lugar. Pero era un mago de poca monta, porque reaparecía siempre igual, acaso chupándose una yema del dedo pinchada.

Ci si mette a scrivere di lena, ma c'è un'ora in cui la penna non gratta che polveroso inchiostro, e non vi scorre più una goccia di vita, e la vita è tutta fuori, fuori dalla finestra, fuori di te, e ti sembra che mai più potrai rifugiarti nella pagina che scrivi, aprire un altro mondo, fare un salto.[...] scrivendo non mi sono cambiata in bene, ho solo consumato un po' d'ansiosa incosciente giovinezza.

Si alguna vez te conviertes en la mitad de ti mismo, muchacho, y te lo deseo, comprenderás cosas que escapan a la normal inteligencia de los cerebros enteros. Habrás perdido la mitad de ti y del mundo, pero la mitad que quede será mil veces más profunda y valiosa. Y también tú querrás que todo esté demediado y desgarrado a tu imagen, porque belleza y sabiduría y justicia existen sólo en aquello que está hecho a trozos.

Beware of saying to them that sometimes different cities follow one another on the same site and under the same name, born and dying without knowing one another, without communication among themselves.

Insomma, l'amore per questo suo elemento arboreo seppe farlo diventare, com'è di tutti gli amori veri, anche spietato e doloroso, che ferisce e recide per far ricrescere e dar forma.

Just take a look around. The whole universe is…let's say it's in a transitional phase…" And they pointed to the sky, where the constellations have become unrecognizable, here clotted, there rarefied, the celestial map in upheaval, stars exploding one after the other, while more stars emit a final flicker and die.

Capirai quando avrai dimenticato quello che capivi prima

Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes

Ma ogni momento della mia vita porta con sé un'accumulazione di fatti nuovi e ognuno di questi fatti nuovi porta con sé le sue conseguenze, cosicché più cerco di tornare al momento zero da cui sono partito più me ne allontano.

Incominciava a formarsi il vortice che per un istante avrebbe sottratto l'operaio, la sartina, il povero borghese alla noia della vita volgare per condurli poi al dolore. Ammaccati, sperduti, alcuni sarebbero ritornati all'antica vita divenuta però più greve; gli altri non avrebbero trovato mai più la quaresima.

We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only -- 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'.

A political program which does not explicitly recognize the need for deschooling is not revolutionary; it is demagoguery calling for more of the same.

P3- everywhere not only education but society as a whole needs deschooling.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

Act the way you want to be and soon you will be the way you act.

Jer, i najve?e pustinje imaju svoje prole?e, pa ma kako kratko i neprimetno bilo.

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.

For a moment he became smoke. How intimate, now, the cloudy sky.

The way I must enter leads through darkness to darkness- O moon above the mountain's rim, please shine a little further on my path,