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Quotes About Transformation

The self must create Its own reasons for being. To shape God Shape self.
~ Octavia E. Butler
God is Change, and in the end, God prevails. But God exists to be shaped. It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out.
~ Octavia E. Butler
You can't come back all at once any more than you can leave all at once. It takes time. After a while, though, things will fall into place.
~ Octavia E. Butler
God is Change, and in the end, God prevails. But God exists to be shaped. It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out. There has to be more that we can do, a better destiny that we can shape. Another place. Another way. Something!
~ Octavia E. Butler
Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Because as much as I want all that I said to be true, it isn't. We'll be moved, all right. It's just a matter of when, by whom, and in how many pieces.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Opening and closing her jacket, her hand touched the long scar across her abdomen. She had acquired it somehow between her second and third Awakenings, had examined it fearfully, wondering what had been done to her. What had she lost or gained, and why?
~ Octavia E. Butler
We will shape God And God will shape us
~ Octavia E. Butler
People have changed the climate of the world. Now they're waiting for the old days to come back.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Trade means change. Bodies change. Ways of living must change. Did you think your children would only look different?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Change is ongoing. Everything changes in some way—size, position, composition, frequency, velocity, thinking, whatever. Every living thing, every bit of matter, all the energy in the universe changes in some way. I don't claim that everything changes in every way, but everything changes in some way.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Change is ongoing. Everything changes in some way—size, position, composition, frequency, velocity, thinking, whatever. Every living thing, every bit of matter, all the energy in the universe changes in some way. I don't claim that everything changes in every way, but everything changes in some way.
~ Octavia E. Butler
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
She went to him. She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person. She didn't kill, but she died a little.
~ Octavia E. Butler
We'll adapt. We'll have to. God is Change. Strange how much it helps me to remember that.
~ Octavia E. Butler
God is Change, and in the end, God prevails. But God exists to be shaped.
~ Octavia E. Butler
But God exists to be shaped. It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out. There has to be more that we can do, a better destiny that we can shape.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Imparando e adattandosi una vittima di Dio può diventare un suo compagno. Con lungimiranza e pianificazione una vittima di Dio può diventare un suo plasmatore. Oppure, per ristrettezza mentale e paura può restare vittima di Dio, il suo giocattolo, la sua preda.
~ Octavia E. Butler
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change. -Earthseed
~ Octavia E. Butler
c'era voluta un'epidemia per far capire alla gente che le cose potevano cambiare.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Dalle sue ceneri una fenice prima deve bruciare.
~ Octavia E. Butler
What's your point?" "The changes." I thought for a moment. "They were slow changes compared to anything that might happen here, but it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Anyanwu said. "This is the way I look when I do nothing. And this is the way I look when I marry a new husband." "But … you
~ Octavia E. Butler
Forever uniting, growing, dissolving-- forever Changing. The universe is God's self-portrait.
~ Octavia E. Butler