Quotes About Transformation

She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to the wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.

Are there any other lives at all or is it just the furnishings that change?

It looks like she is standing still but actually she is walking. She is breaking out of the chains of the past.

I hit rock bottom, but I found something solid there.

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

Soseai pe Pamant cu talpici de bebelus, si cu o fericire infinita, apoi aceasta fericire se evapora incetisor, pe masura ce mainile si picioarele iti deveneau tot mai mari.

According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that is the real life lesson.

Als er een uitweg is, een andere uitweg dan de dood, dan loopt de ontsnappingsroute via de woorden. Maar woorden helpen eerder om 'een' geest te verlaten dan dé geest, en ze geven ons de bouwstenen om een nieuwe geest op te bouwen, identiek maar beter, vlak bij de oude maar met een steviger fundament en heel vaak ook een beter uitzicht.

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.' She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being man. Do you know what I think? I think you are finding yourself. You were lost. You didn't even know who or what you were. You had no purpose. You were living in poverty. You were moping around, burning yourself to feel something. Now look. You have purpose.

Yes, she was different now. She was stronger. She had untapped things inside her. Things she might never have known about if she'd never sung in an arena or fought off a polar bear or felt so much love and fear and courage.

every day a retreat from who she'd imagined she'd be.

After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become.

si bien el carbón y el diamante son ambos carbono, el carbón es demasiado impuro como para convertirse jamás en diamante, por mucha presión que se le aplique. La ciencia dice que uno empieza siendo carbón y termina siendo carbón. Quizá esa sea la lección vital que había que aprender.

Er wordt wel gezegd dat je of leest om aan de wereld te ontsnappen of om jezelf te vinden. Ik zie het verschil niet echt.We vinden onszelf door te ontsnappen. Het gaat er niet om waar je bent, maar waar je heen wilt, en zo.

you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.

Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting.

And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

Well, you can take that fire and put it in the ocean.

It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

In every human life there is a moment. A crisis. One that says, what I believe is wrong. It happens to everyone, the only difference being how that knowledge changes them.

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

And it was different because, above all other things, that heavy and painful Book of Regrets had been successfully burnt to dust.

Yesterday I knew I had no future, and that it was impossible for me to accept my life as it is now. And yet today, that same messy life seems full of hope. Potential.