Quotes About Transformation

A door to an alternate self. This self was another Alice, not the childhood Alice: capable, free in the world, independent.

Peace is an attitude; change is the action.

Change brings opportunity.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

When something goes wrong, such as failing an exam to qualify as a doctor, a person may seem to be despairing over something that has been lost. But on closer inspection, according to Kierkegaard, it becomes obvious that the man is not really despairing of the thing (failing an exam) but of himself. The self that failed to achieve a goal has become intolerable. The man wanted to become a different self (a doctor), but he is now stuck with a failed self and in despair.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

The process of rotating, stretching, and moving is called an affine transformation.

What we find is highly sensitive dependence to initial conditions, producing phase transitions. Once a critical threshold is passed, the fire spreads outwards, the disease becomes an epidemic, the material magnetic.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

I watch myself, like some stranger, rise and march right over to sit beside my old enemy, because you tell me your plan for her includes something nicer than a lonely life.

The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer.

When You've lost it all....thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.

When You've lost it all....that's when you realize that Life is Beautiful.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

And could a man sink to such triviality, such meanness, such nastiness? Could he change so much? And is it true to life? Yes, it is all true to life. All this can happen to a man. The ardent youth of today would start back in horror if you could show him his portrait in old age. As you pass from the soft years of youth into harsh, hardening manhood, be sure you take with you on the way all the humane emotions, do not leave them on the road: you will not pick them up again afterwards!

You have no love for the good, then force yourself to do good, without any love for it. That will be counted an even greater merit for you than for one who does good for the love of it. Simply force yourself a few times then the love will come to you as well. Believe me, everything can be done.

How, in fact, could a nose, which only yesterday was in the middle of his face, and which could not possibly walk around or drive in a carriage, suddenly turn up in a uniform!

Ce frumos e?ti câteodat? drumule, drumule îndep?rtat! De câte ori, ca unul care piere ?i se îneac?, m-am ag??at de tine ?i tu de fiecare dat? m-ai scos cu m?rinimie la mal ?i m-ai salvat! ?i câte idei minunate, câte vis?ri poetice mi-au venit în minte în timp ce te str?b?team, câte impresii încânt?toare mi-ai prilejuit!...

Exist? taine ale sufletului: oricât de mult s-ar îndep?rta de drumul cel drept un r?t?citor, orcât s-ar înr?i în sufletul s?u un criminal iremediabil, oricât ar persista în via?a sa dezm??at?, dac? îl dojene?ti ?i-i ar??i calit??ile, pe care chiar el le-a f?cut de ru?ine, totul se cutremur? f?r? voie în el ?i omul se simte zguduit.

Because of pressure, there are diamonds.

If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.