Quotes About Transformation

When I let go of what I am,' said the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, 'I become what I might be.

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

Change doesn't just happen by focusing on the place that you want to escape. It happens by focusing on the place where you want to reach

S'il y a une issue, une issue qui ne soit pas la mort elle-même, alors elle passe par les mots. Mais plutôt que de quitter totalement l'esprit, les mots nous aident à quitter UN esprit et nous donnent les outils pour en bâtir un autre, similaire mais meilleur, proche de l'ancien mais avec des fondations plus fermes, et souvent avec une meilleure vue.

She could plant a forest inside herself.

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

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. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal.

This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.

Too many memories. Too many ghosts. It was time to be someone else again. I suppose the way I understand my life is as a kind of Russian doll, with different versions inside other versions, each one enclosing the other, whereby the life before isn't seen from the outside but is still there.

Everything changes and nothing changes.

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.

But as things made their decline from ripeness, they could taste wonderful, I realized.

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

It's not what

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.

After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become. We are what life does to us.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano.

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

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

She wasn't a black hole, she decided she was a volcano. And like a volcano, she couldn't run away from her self. She'd have to stay there in 10 to that wasteland. She could plan a forest inside of herself

I'm just a slow-emotion replay of somebody I used to be.

Get out of your comfort zone and into your discomfort zone. That's where real change begins.

Amidst the Brambles, a changeling cannot help but feel exposed, vulnerable, and even trapped, and those feelings are not without merit.

simplicity piled upon simplicity creates complexity.