Quotes About Transformation

Change is not the enemy of what is sacred. Change is the champion of what is sacred.

I could do worse than become my own grandma, or anyone of the strong women who raised us. Our strengths emerged from theirs; we build on their heritage and transform their resilience and competence into our own.

Bailey handed Molly the pen and she had Molly Parmelia written when he halted her with a gentle touch to her back. "Don't forget your new name." "Oh, you're right." She bit her tongue and scripted out Garner with a flourish. "How's that?" "Beautiful." But he wasn't looking at her penmanship. "So

don't you forget that those stinky smells have a purpose. Without the barnyard, there'd be no bacon. Without the fertilizer..." He waved his hand over the garden before turning again to Matthew. "Don't be afraid to deal with the mess, son. The sweetest moments come from the most offensive fertilizer.

In other words, our spiritual journey occurs not in spite of the ambiguous and problematic experience of our actual life but because of it.

Prayer is the intangible that brings the tangible into being, the intangible that sustains the tangible, the intangible that reealigns the tangible, the intangible that is more real than the tangible .

Homo innove par ce qu il stocke.

Ni fetichiser ni stigmatiser: remplacer Versus par Verso.

I'm primarily concerned with what happens inside a person when they encounter the mountains. When you climb a mountain, you come back down as a different person. We don't change the mountain by climbing it; we ourselves change.

For it depended entirely on me as to whether the myth of the mountain was to be transformed and the path found between the supernatural and reality. It was in me that all expectations were vested.

the mastery of historical destiny is a tortuous process in which powerful forces may be beguiled, deflected, and transmuted but never simply annulled or defied.

The ice is not very thick; the ocean beneath it is deep and tempestuous; and the sun above is warm and melting.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

Who I am hates who I've been.

New York is a city that will be replaced by another city.

Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.

So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

But as soon as I had finished my course of study, at which time it is usual to be admitted to the ranks of the well educated, I completely changed my opinion, for I found myself bogged down in so many doubts and errors, that it seemed to me that having set out to become learned, I had derived no benefit from my studies, other than that of progressively revealing to myself how ignorant I was.

Which of the factors that the industry takes for granted should be eliminated? Which factors should be reduced well below the industry's standard? Which factors should be raised well above the industry's standard? Which factors should be created that the industry has never offered?

Dans nos ténèbres, il n'y a pas une place pour la Beauté. Toute la place est pour la Beauté.

there is no absence that cannot be replaced

Who would dare to say that what we have destroyed was worth a hundred times more than what we had dreamt and ceaselessly transfigured in murmuring to the ruins?

La Poésie ne rhythmera plus l'action, elle sera en avant." (Rimbaud) [...] La poésie ne rythmera plus l'action, elle en sera le fruit et l'annonciation jamais savourés, en avant de son propre paradis.