Quotes About Transformation

Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.

like a window had been thrown open inside my head and my heart, where there had been closed shutters before.

Don't hate me for wanting to change the way things are. I believe in you, Callum. You can change the world, I know you can. But not like this, I'm not trying to be magnanimous or patronizing. I genuinely want to help but...

Wirkliche Wahrheit unterscheidet sich von jeder phrasenhaften Wahrhaftigkeit dadurch, daß sie etwas ganz Bestimmtes will, daß etwas geschieht – nämlich daß sie den Menschen löst, frei macht.

Christsein Christsein heißt nicht in einer bestimmten Weise religiös sein, auf Grund irgendeiner Methodik etwas aus sich machen (einen Sünder, Büßer oder einen Heiligen), sondern es heißt Menschsein, nicht einen Menschentypus, sondern den Menschen schafft Christus in uns.

What are you now, Jaz Bond? Double-oh-Six, the chhakka secret agent?

When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illuminated faith, and fear into love.

It is not by destroying the lower nature that man becomes virtuous; it is by the transmutation and regeneration of every base quality and attitude that he achieves divinity.

and the one mistake they made above all others—the mistake that has always threatened the culture of a people—was the attempt to set up a new life here, yet bring from the old world most of its laws, most of its corruption and nearly all of its errors. They brought over with them many of the very things they had attempted to escape.

The earth and the water next mingled, becoming inseparable, and the Spiritual Word which is called Reason moved upon their surface, causing endless turmoil.

You put high heels on and you change.

The Mahabharata is our story, but in this modern version - our Shakuni has an English avatar.

I jump over dead bodies, and in my mind flashes a thought: how quickly men become accustomed to things which, at one time, they would have found impossible to imagine.

At the king's landing stage, the heads of stone beasts swim in the water, and so do their own shapes, the shapes of gentleman, their forms broken by ripples, and the everted queen flickering like a flame in a glass; around them, the dance of mild afternoon sunshine, and a flood of birdsong.

Si queremos modernizar al país, tenemos que comenzar por modernizar nuestra política

Not what it could have been: It is what it was. And what it was is dead. Octavio Paz, Lesson of Things, 1955

La lengua de las mariposas es una tronca enroscada como un muelle de reloj. Si hay una flor que la atrae, la desenrolla y la mete en el cáliz para chupar. Cuando lleváis el dedo humedecido a un tarro de azúcar, ¿a qué sentís ya el dulce en la boca como si la yema fuese la punta de la lengua? Pues así es la lengua de la mariposa.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

The revolution is not a tea party.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Y ya no deseaba sino quedarse crucificada a la tierra, sufriendo y gozando en su carne el ir y venir de lejanas, muy lejanas mareas; sintiendo crecer la hierba, emerger islas nuevas y abrirse en otro continente la flor ignorada que no vive sino en un día de eclipse. Y sintiendo aún bullir y estallar soles, y derrumbarse, quién sabe dónde, montañas gigantes de arena.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.