Quotes About Transformation

Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.

Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.

I'm a bat, want to see me fly?

I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole." "Why?

she danced in the shadowy moonlight, and it felt good to be bad for once, really bad and get away with it, good to be someone else.

Sometimes, things change so quickly you don't even know how it happened.

It's hard when you lose someone. I've had it happen. It changes your world, everything, but it doesn't change who you are. People who are heroes are still heroes. They may get more heroic. People who are the opposite—well, watch out.

But even if I could change my hair, my nose, my chin, I couldn't perform plastic surgery on my soul.

A rose can change your life.

And yet, even when all was well, as Shakespeare said, that ends well, did they say 'Hey, Kendra, we understand that you made a noble effort. Why not come to the palace for some champagne sometime?' Noooooo. They're all, 'Get thee from our kingdom, witch, or it's the guillotine." They're lucky I didn't turn them into talking swine.

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

We are what We have lost

We are what We have lost ? Alex Kuo

Being initiated is not like receiving a diploma that you hang on your wall. It only happens when a real goal is achieved in the physical and the spiritual simultaneously—on earth as it is in Heaven. Because of that, a new form of consciousness and spiritual knowledge sprouts from the greatest depth of our existence and stays indefinitely in our being. It is a light that sprouts from the source of the superior self that will guide us until the end of the search.

She recalls the smell of bologna, the slimy, metallic taste of it on her tongue. Not for the first time she decides to become a vegetarian.

Time can do all sorts of things. It's almost like a magician. It can turn autumn into spring and babies into children, seeds into flowers and tadpoles into frogs, caterpillars into cocoons, and cocoons into butterflies. And life into death. There's nothing that time can't do. Except run backwards. That's its trouble really, it can only go one way.

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

Though they had been for years with Jesus, there was still much more of the old Jewish man than of the new Christian man in them. If they had been left to the freedom of their own will, they would probably have avoided the Samaritan territory altogether, and, like the rest of their countrymen, taken a roundabout way to Jerusalem by crossing to the eastward of the Jordan.

He lays on Peter: "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." Jesus expects the frail disciple to become strong in grace, and so able and willing to help the weak. He cherishes this expectation with respect to all, but specially in regard to Peter, assuming that the weakest might and ought eventually to become the strongest; the last first, the greatest sinner the greatest saint; the most foolish the wisest, most benignant, and sympathetic of

Specially remarkable is the first thought to which He gave utterance in these words: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

The stupendous task of human regeneration will be accomplished only by the purified vision of hearts that grow not cold.

you can lose more than you thought possible and still grow back, stronger than anyone imagined.

It isn't just that you fall in love with someone—you each allow yourself new identities with each other, new skins, almost like a cocoon to who you'll be next.

I wanted to prepare for a life of sudden transformations, of enemies singing at you across the stage dressed in the costume of a lover.