Quotes About Transformation

Your past must die for your future to live.

Year by year/The monkey's mask/Reveals the monkey.

Cherries are in bloom here comes a guy selling yam seeds

Autumn again getting old is like a bird flying into a cloud

The butterfly perfuming it's wings fans the orchid - Matsuo Basho

Death and rebirth. That is the life cycle of our species.

I'm not the 'Yuki' Zero knows anymore... Because the vampire side of me..ate the other part...

The Yuki you once knew Zero, is now gone for good. Because the Vampire Yuki completely devoured her.

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

Truth is not a fixed thing. It evolves and morphs and inverts. What is true today may not be true tomorrow.

As with post-traumatic growth, it's not the scare itself but the subsequent perspective shift that enhances gratitude.

Once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

You can't change the past. You can't change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.

Sometimes, to be yourself you will have to forget yourself and become something else. Your character is not a fixed thing. You will sometimes have to move to keep up with it.

It wasn't just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about. —Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping... Rather than leave the mind entirely, words help us leave a mind, and give us the building blocks to build another one, similar but better, nearby to the old one but with firmer foundations, and very often a better view.

Remember that the key thing about life on earth is change. Cars rust. Paper yellows. Technology dates. Caterpillars become butterflies. Nights morph into days. Depression lifts.

You need to be uncomfortable. You need to hurt. As the Persian poet Rumi wrote in the twelfth century, "The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.