Quotes About Transformation

understanding consists in reducing one type of reality to another." Claude Levi-Strauss

It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

She had always been a chameleon, taking on accents and manners suited to her circumstance, but now she felt as though she had changed into something new, and she couldn't change back.

The company increased as light was let into the house. But

The world's an incessant transformation, and to meditate is awareness, with no clinging to, no working on, the mind. It is a floating; ever-moving; 'marvellous emptiness'. Only absorption in such a practice will release us from the accidents, and appetites, of life. And upon this leaf one shall cross over the stormy sea, among the dragon-like waves.

For time, which can extend and magnify you, cannot liberate you from the confines of your skin or alter nature from its enduring shape.

Turn your scars into stars

I used to do machine language programming in the lights on the front panel of a computer; now I do higher-dimensional type theory. It's a little bit crazy.

Todo el pensar nuevo es acerca de la pérdida.

The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.

The basis of art is change in the universe.

Prayer is not trying to convince God to do something for us. Prayer is agreeing and working with God to shift

One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.

Love brings up everything unlike itself so that you can let go of fear and be the loving person you truly are.

You can make anything out of anything.

When a man falls in love suddenly his whole centre changes. Up to that point he has probably referred everything to himself--considered things from his own point. When he falls in love the whole thing is shifted; he becomes a part of the circumference--perhaps even the whole circumference; someone else becomes the centre.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

Love bombing" is a related and more extreme strategy for dealing with insecure assholes—you go beyond expressing empathy and holding your tongue, and respond to their nastiness with warmth and kindness. Your aim is to transform your oppressor into a friend and admirer.

Think of the wonderful chemistry by which bread was changed into the divine tragedy of Hamlet.

The economic revolution of 1870 to 1970 was unique in human history, unrepeatable because so many of its achievements could happen only once.

both the Great Depression and World War II directly contributed to the Great Leap.

I [the Lord] will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. (Isa. 43:19

Grow up in all things into Him who is the head – Christ. – Ephesians 4:15

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. – Romans 12:2