Quotes About Transformation

Plato had to make the tremendous effort (it is one of the most exhausting which man is called on to exert) of turning a vague feeling into a clear thought.

I would recommend that the reader picture the final participation as a direction in which we had all better be moving, rather than as a beatific consummation at which we might in some remote future arrive.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Go on so! I don't reckon yu' know what you're sayin'. Yu' might as well ask fruit to stay green. If the way we are now can keep bein' enough for you, it can't for me. A pleasure to you, is it? Well, to me it is—I don't know what to call it. I come to yu' and I hate it, and I come again and I hate it, and I ache and grieve all over when I go. No! You will have to think of some other way than just invitin' me to keep green

It was the first time I'd ever been in a Roller. I sat there in the back seat, like the King of England, thinking, 'Three years ago, you were a puke remover in a slaughterhouse, and before that you were doling out slop to child molesters in Winson Green. Now look where you are.'

I'd always admired The Beatles for starting out as a bubblegum pop group and then getting heavier and heavier as their albums went on, and here was me going in the opposite direction.

In 1968, John Osbourne was an up-and-coming rock 'n' roll star,' I would say in this fake movie-announcer voice as I wandered around the house. 'In 1969, he was an up-and-coming garbageman.'

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

Some things need to be broken.

Greatness is not just in the truth itself but in what we can do with it.

alumbrar la nueva era tiene enfrente, siempre, el freno descomunal de los privilegiados.

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

El pasado retornaba en oleadas; huracanado pasado de mierda. Ni que fuera tan importante. Ni que valiera para nada más que para estar ahí depositado, sedimentado en la memoria, diciendo que ya no somos los que fuimos.

Ilumínate más, ciudad maldita. Ilumina tus puertas y ventanas Ilumínate más, luz necesita el partido sin luz de las sotanas.

Cuanto más hago el amor más ganas tengo de hacer la revolución

If you could trade out and be, say, Godzilla, wouldn't you jump on it, dear? Couldn't you then forgo your bad haircuts and dour wardrobe and moping ways and begin to have some fun, as Godzilla? What might we have to give you to induce you to become Godzilla and leave us alone? Shall we await your answer?

I always thought that what Rajima did with those cast-off peels was a metaphor for how she dealt with her arranged marriage. She transformed those peels, with palm sugar for sweetness and tamarind for tang, into something precious.

When realization occurs you should definitely be free from samsara, so that your disturbing emotions naturally subside and become original wakefulness. What is the use of a realization that fails to reduce your disturbing emotions?

Tsogyal, if you want to practice the Dharma in an authentic way, it is most important to cut your ties to unwholesome places, companions, and so forth. So give them up!

My self-confidence, love of wisdom, and desire to change the world were rooted in that brief period, when I climbed out of despair to rebirth.

You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.