Quotes About Transformation

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

Rice comes to life in water and should die in wine.

Her body was fermenting like new wine.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

was a skill she had always inwardly marveled at when she discovered it in one of her patients, the smooth transitions and fancy footwork with which someone took a nugget of non-negotiable fact, modified it on the spot, and handed it back, an altogether new and tangible animal

Miss Saigon from Madam Butterfly. The Hours from Mrs. Dalloway. The Lion King from Hamlet

always on the edge of some beautiful redemption.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

She doesn't scream, but she groans and the sounds she makes are beyond the pain and work of labor, beyond human—or even animal—life. They are the sounds that move the earth, the sounds that give voice to the deep, violent fissures in the bark of the redwoods. They are the sounds of splitting cells, of bonding atoms, the sounds of the waxing moon and the forming stars.

The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.

If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep loving the same sad small life.

If you keep telling the same sad, small story, you will keep living the same sad, small life.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

The explosion of the grenade in his dug-out made him take leave of the Greco-Latin-Christian civilized world. When he regained consciousness he was on the other side... among the Communists.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

She took his hand and kissed it fervently. "I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine.

Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.