Quotes About Transformation

Feeling willing is the first step. Recognizing that something should change shows a willingness and openness to doing things differently.

Part of you recognizes you should change something about your actions, but another part is still attached to the old ways, no matter how uncomfortable they are. This is normal. This is part of being human.

That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.

Los envidiosos poseen el don de hacer daño con la única fuerza de su pensamiento. Ellos pueden lograr que, en tus manos, las flores se conviertan en ortigas.

it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be.

Yes, I was lonely, but I knew then and I know now: I did it because I wanted to change my life. That's what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we're forced to buy new shoes. You know what I'm saying?

Maybe if i just lie under the sun long enough I will melt like an ice cube and all my sadness will evaporate into the air so i can start again.

She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside.

did it because I wanted to change my life. That's what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we're forced to buy new shoes.

Leave wreckage by the roadside. Burn all decayed tissue. Tightrope from which we emerge. —DAWN LUNDY MARTIN, GOOD STOCK STRANGE BLOOD

Septimus peered over the side - the marble looked solid once more. "It's Thixotropic ," he said. "It's what ?" said Nicko. "Solid. But goes liquid under pressure." "Don't we all," said Nicko gloomily.

Simon's eye has turned to dust," Septimus said. "What?" - Marcia

Hij werd nu wie hij in werkelijkheid was. Septimus Heap.

as was the title: I, Marcellus.

Until the early 1970s, the United States was the very model of a modern major economy.

I got highways for stretchmarks See where I've grown.

That trip to The City could not have lasted more than a few days, but because my universe exploded and was expanding at such a rapid speed, time stood still. Each experience imprinted itself on me like it would a newborn child. When I came home I think I called my mother and told her I was moving to New York and I think she said something to the effect of, "I trust your judgment." It took me a few years, but eventually, that's exactly what I did.

It's here in all the pieces of my shame that now I find myself again. From The Book of Hours II, 2

Between yourself & the beloved, between yourself & your joy, the riverbank swaying with wildflowers, the shaft of sunlight on the rock, the song. Will you pass through it now, will you let it consume whatever solidness this is you call your life, & send you out, a tremor of heat, a radiance, a changed flickering thing?

She had been unprepared for old age to render her so harmless. It was as if her sins had been wiped away, leaving only concealment in their place.

At first she mistook them for sheets of pink crepe paper that someone had crumpled and carelessly flung down the hillside, perhaps after another astonishing party at the club. A moment later she remembered her great-grandmother's words and saw that they were hosts of wild pink zephyranthes that had come up in the night after the first fall of rain.

How can you possibly be an agent of positive change in the world when you are full of bitterness and hatred?

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

Jerry J. Mallett: From it I learned that it is never too late to have your life changed by a children's book.