Quotes About Transformation

joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for her. (215)

now accepted that Sander was again himself.

Trials aren't meant to harm us but to make us more Christlike.

Mi chiedevo com'era possibile che le persone più vicine mi cambiassero davanti in modo così improvviso, senza che io avessi avuto nemmeno il tempo di capire che c'era una trasformazione nell'aria.

Quand'è che quello spirito ha cominciato a cambiare? Quando hanno cominciato a cambiare loro? O hanno semplicemente smesso di essere come avrebbero voluto essere, E sono tornate a essere come sono? A che punto il gioco dell'invenzione si è trasformato in sforzo di costruzione, impegno dopo impegno, vincolo dopo vincolo? Quand'è che la leggerezza si è trasformata in peso?

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Dragonflies signify new beginnings and new unions…sometimes marriage.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.

And when I have that feeling, that feeling like I need a handout, desperate, I want to pull my skin off and turn into dust.I want to throw myself back to the angels and tell them to start over,start over without me cause you put the screws in loose, you put the hinges in wrong.

understood that migration was a kind of death, in which one's old self must be buried in order for a new self to be born, and that this move has made me who I am today.

Dic nobis Maria: quid vidisti in via? Ho visto trionfare le cose puttane, emarginarsi le vere.

For the moment, Mr. Fontanelli, your trillion is nothing but a pile of money that's lying around uselessly. But if you use it to gain economic influence, you may be able to force the world to change!

There is beauty but it is locked up inside one day my hope is that her bud too will blossom From the poem entitled The Dower Flower Andreas Simic

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Death is not enough for such men. We must add mechanics

In current German usage, the concepts "Americanization" (Ameri-kanisierung) and "American conditions" (amerikanische Verhaltnisse; amerikanische Bedingungen) almost invariably stand for something negative, bad, and above all threatening, something that absolutely has to be avoided or—if the European patient has already contracted this ailment—somehow needs to be alleviated or diminished.

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent

My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.

Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.