Quotes About Transformation

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most fundamental expression of this fact is the language which gives man the power to abstract from the concretely given and, after having abstracted from it, to return to it, to interpret and transform it. The most vital being is the being which has the word and is by the word liberated from bondage to the given.

A maturidade bíblica nunca é apenas a respeito do que você sabe; é sempre sobre como a graça tem empregado o que você veio a saber para transformar a maneira como você vive.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Les 'idées' sont pour moi des moyens de transformation - et par conséquent, des parties ou moments de quelque changement. Une 'idée' de l'homme 'est un moyen de transformer une question'.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Verbeelding is een uitstekend vertrekpunt voor verandering.

Velvet peeled away from my heart, my delicate pericardium, shocked that something beautiful did not love me. I grew six terrible inches. My bones hardened into their permanence.

It could be that you have the wrong hands, or the wrong face. It is not your imagination. You do. You have. It is emerging as the condition of our age. Every day there are new ways of being wrong. Explosions are common, but that is not it. We are waking up to it. We are opening our wrong eyes.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten who you are.

How can I get better by getting sicker first?

You'll be all right tomorrow. Watch what a difference a day makes

I've left Bethlehem and I feel free... I've left the girl I was supposed to be and some day I'll be born.

Ironic," Ricardo said. "That you must become a monster to keep from going mad.

Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us for ever.

What are you thinking? Just of how much you've changed me. This is why there is poetry. For days like these.

Places change us, don't they? Sometimes more than we can even guess.

That's obviously, isn't it?' she said. 'A hawk is always a hawk, except'- and here she raised on heavy eyebrow and gave a mysterious smile - 'except when the hawk is a cabbage.' 'What?' Ernest said, grinning and game and clearly perplexed. 'Exactly,' Gertrude said.

How personal this life was, and how every time we grazed against one another even for a moment, we weren't the same afterward.

I'd managed to ignore how the ceremony would take away the boy I knew for ever and also the fierce warrior girl who had loved him. It already had. Those children were gone.

His black eyes found mine over the licking flames, and my heart jumped. He was a moran now. That's what had changed—he'd become a man. I

Swahili phrase he'd challenged me with years before, "A new thing is good, though it be a sore place.