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Quotes About Transformation

I'll emerge, with wings, from the banner I am, bird that never alights on trees in the garden— I will shed my skin and my language. Some of my words of love will fall into Lorca's poems; he'll live in my bedroom and see what I have seen of the Bedouin moon. I'll emerge from almond trees like cotton on sea foam
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Tu déchires des nuages et tu les envoies en direction du vent. Et alors? Il est des nuages très fertiles et cela requiert un sol approprié.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
because words can encompass so much of the illusion of synonyms, and because metaphor is often subject to transformation: from "my homeland is not a suitcase" to "my homeland is a suitcase.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
What would happen if I were to become A child again? And I returned to you… and you returned to me.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Quiere ser una mariposa. ¿Las mariposas tienen recuerdos? Las mariposas son los recuerdos del que sabe cantar junto a las fuentes. ¿Y el canta? Aún es pequeño.
~ Unknown
Behold how this drop of seawater has taken so many forms and names; it has existed as mist, cloud, rain, dew, and mud, then plant, animal, and Perfect man; and yet it was a drop of water from which these things appeared. Even so this universe of reason, soul, heavens, and bodies, was but a drop of water in its beginning and ending. ...When a wave strikes it, the world vanishes; and when the appointed time comes to heaven and stars, their being is lost in not being.
~ Mahmud Shabistari
Küçük bir parçac?ktan yolculuk etti külle; Tekrar dönüp dü?ündü aleme bakt? i?te;
~ Mahmud Shabistari
He was acting like the man he wanted to be, in hopes that he could become him. He would keep acting until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then he would be the man he was.
~ Maile Meloy
Via?a nu se împline?te prin uitarea suferin?ei, ci prin zilnica transformare a mâhnirii în în?elegere, a cruzimii în tandre?e ?i a am?r?ciunii în dulcea??.
~ Unknown
Omul nu este niciodat? mul?umit cu tot ceea ce a primit în dar. El însu?i este un creator, misiunea lui fiind aceea de a-?i transforma necazul în fericire.
~ Unknown
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
~ Unknown
To be in Christ -- that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you -- that is sanctification!
~ Unknown
In London, I was unique. But down here, where I was a bungalow one minute and a funeral parlour the next, I felt as thought I was dissolving. I mean, if you're everywhere, you're nowhere. If you're everything, you're nothing.
~ Mal Peet
Ya nunca será lo mismo para ti. Nunca volverás a ver con ojos inocentes o sin ambivalencia en la mente, como antes de este momento. Una parte de ti está ahora consagrada a todo lo que excluye ese simple gozo y exultación. Bienaventurado has sido de poseerlo durante un breve período...»
~ Unknown
principios básicos del método Esalen de programación, consistentes en «desmenuzarlo todo y reconstruir de nuevo».
~ Unknown
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
~ Malayan proverb
El tapiz rojo que ocultaba a Telassim días atrás había sido cambiado por otro azul que presentaba en el centro un gran heptágono estrellado.
~ Unknown
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.
~ Malcolm Mclaren
Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.
~ Malcolm X
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
~ Malcolm X
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
~ Malcolm X
The focus here is not on ritual itself, but on opening up something in hearts and spirits that has been locked away so long that individuals can barely remember the source.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
To be a leader, or the helpmate of a leader, you have to first die as a person, and Mother was mourning for her approaching death as just a simple village woman.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some