Quotes About Transformation

Everyone who seeks salvation must do three things: change his place of residence, change his name, and change his deeds.

Change is the nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity. (P4)

Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness—these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized.

Gdyby tak mo?na odm?odzi? cz?owieka, jak drzewo. ?ci?? z niego z?e wspomnienia, zeskroba? ca?y ból, wszelkie rozczarowania, jak martw? tkank?; poobcina? b??dy, g?upie decyzje, pomy?ki, prze?wietli? my?li. I ?eby to mo?na by?o robi? po ka?dej zimie, ?eby si? w nowy rok wchodzi?o czystym i niewinnym. Wiadomo przecie? – która? z kolejnych zim nas zabije.

Inimene muutub, kasvab vanadest oludest välja nagu laps rõivaist. Aeg voolab ja muudab kõike. On suuri ja väikesi sõdu, need suured muudavad maailma, väikesed inimest.

It did take Odysseus twenty years." "That doesn't matter," the professor replied merrily. "In today's day and age you could do it in two weeks.

Resztki zostawionej tu osobowo?ci poprzedniego go?cia trzeba zwalczy? swoj? bezosobowo?ci?. Po to jest Przemiana. Resztki odbi? tamtej twarzy w lustrze nie tylko musz? zetrze? szmatk?, ale tak?e zape?ni? lustro moj? bia?o-ró?ow? beztwarzowo?ci?. Tamten zapach zostawiony przez roztargnienie i po?piech musz? zag?uszy? moim bezzapachem.

eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality—its inexpressibility.

To wcale nie jest proste. Nie wystarczy zwyk?e sprz?tanie. Resztki zostawionej tu osobowo?ci poprzedniego go?cia trzeba zwalczy? swoj? bezosobowo?ci?. Po to jest Przemiana. Resztki odbi? tamtej twarzy w lustrze nie tylko musz? zetrze? szmatk?, ale tak?e zape?ni? lustro moj? bia?o-ró?ow? beztwarzowo?ci?. Tamten zapach zostawiony przez roztargnienie i po?piech musz? zag?uszy? moim bezzapachem.

The world has dropped its petals.

Knowledge that is grown only on the outside changes nothing inside a man, or merely changes him on the surface, as one garment is changed for another. But he who learns by taking things inside himself undergoes constant transformation, because he incorporates what he learns into his being.

Always in our dreams we hear the turn of the key that shall close the door of the last brothel; the clink of the last coin that pays for the body and soul of a woman; the falling of the last wall that encloses artificially the activity of woman and divides her from man; always we picture the love of the sexes, as, once a dull, slow, creeping worm; then a torpid, earthy chrysalis; at last the full-winged insect, glorious in the sunshine of the future.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything… other than how heavy… and awkward the bottle had become.

About this time the tremendous invention of printing was achieved, and Columbus unwittingly discovered the New World. The

At 11, I could say 'I am sodium' (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Some men never recover from education.

By the early 1920s, the America of Jefferson, Lincoln, Whitman, and the young William Jennings Bryan had ceased to exist. It had been replaced by the world of McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and Woodrow Wilson.

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

One's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimensions.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.