Quotes About Transformation

the major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur

It builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches. It is the architect of the buildings of the spirit, and it is also their solvent: - and the spiritual precedes the material.

It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur :—like unto an arrow in the hand of a child.

Change in a triceThe lilies and languors of virtueFor the raptures and roses of vice.

Poor splendid wings so frayed and soiled and torn!

Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.

First, the idea of 'race' contains both biological and cultural elements, for example skin colour, religion, and behaviour. Second, the biological and cultural appear to combine in variable proportions in any definition of a racial group, depending upon the group and the historical period in question. And racial status, as in the 'whitening' of Jews, the Irish, and others, is subject to political negotiation and transformation.

Words are themselves organisms, ...

Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.

Cut this tree I'm living in down. Hollow its trunk out. Make me all over again, with what you scooped out of its insides. Slide the new me back inside the old trunk. Burn me. Burn the tree. Spread the ashes, for luck, where you want next year's crops to grow. Birth me and the tree Next summer's sun Midwinter guarantee

Things can change over time, what looks fixed and pinned and closed in a life can change and open, and what's unthinkable and impossible at one time will easily be possible in another.

Beauty is the true way to change things for the better. To make things better. There should be a lot more beauty in all our lives. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. There is no such thing as fake beauty. Which is why beauty is so powerful. Beauty assuages.

Daniel in the gallery sees one of her hands, the one on the rail of the witness box, cover itself in little shoots and buds. The buds split open. There are leaves coming out of her fingers.

It is like her mother has been struck by - what? Lightening. Her mother has lightened up since the moment they landed in this country and the plane door opened and the warmer air came in. The moment they walked into this room she lightened even more

Herbales y verbales. El lenguaje es como las amapolas. Solo requiere que algo remueva la tierra a su alrededor para que las palabras que estaban dormidas broten rojas, lozanas, meciéndose al viento. Luego las semillas caen al suelo por el movimiento de las inflorescencias. Y crean más palabras que esperan para brotar.

Seems the self you get left with on the shore, in the end, is the self that you were when you went.

How adaptable human beings were without even realizing it, slipping blindly from state to state. One morning it was summer, the next you woke up and the whole year was over; one minute you were thirty, the next sixty, sixty next year quick as a wink, how fast it all was. How quickly and smoothly, yet how shockingly, when you thought about it, the seasons and the years gave way to each other

I'm rubble too, he thinks. Just in a different form. The whole world and all its people. Rubble.

You can't stop change, the man says. It comes of necessity. You have to go with it and make something of what it makes of you.

Els ocells visiten els arbres sense fulles, però no sense fulles com a l'hivern; ara les branques s'enrigideixen, les puntes dels branquillons resplendeixen com la flama d'una espelma.

Change is the nature of luck.

Midge, inimioara mea dulce È™i cumplit de cinic?, spune bunicul. Va trebui s? înveÈ›i acel tip de speran?? care transform? lucrurile în istorie. Altfel, n-o s? existe vreo È™ans? pentru propriile tale adev?ruri m?reÈ›e, È™i nici un adev?r bun pentru proprii t?i nepoÈ›i.

There's ways to survive these times, Doubleclick, and I think one way is the shape the telling takes.

birth me all over again burn me and the tree next summer's sun midwinter guarantee