Quotes About Transformation

I realized that nothing ever comes back again quite the same. Things roll on, new sights take the place of the old, and the only way you can do it over is remember

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,giant finned cars nose forward like fish;a savage servilityslides by on grease.

I keep no rank nor station.Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.

The twinkling steel above me is a star; I am a fallen Christmas tree. Our car Races through seven red-lights—then the road Is unpatrolled and empty, and a load Of ply-wood with a tail-light makes us slow. I turn and whisper in her ear. You know I want to leave my mother and my wife, You wouldn't have me tied to them for life Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Time runs, the windshield runs with stars.

Oh to break loose like the chinook salmon jumping and falling back, nosing up to the impossible stone and bone-crushing waterfall.... Time to grub up and junk the year's output, a dead wood of dry verse: dim confession, coy revelation, liftings, listless self-imitation, whole days when I could hardly speak, came pluming home unshaven, weak and willing to read anyone things done before and better done....

In Tasfalen's house, what had been Roxane lay abed in Tasfalen's body, half-conscious, rent in memory and power, a mere fragment knowing only that it wanted to survive.

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

The Innovator's Prescription,

And his prospects … they were altered in the Crimea. Everyone who went there was changed by it, everyone who survived was damaged. It was impossible not to be." She brushed the mist from her hair with the back of one hand. "You cannot bathe in blood every night," she said, "and emerge the next morning unstained." Michael

to imbibe it is to undergo, at the peril of my very soul, a transformation so radical that simply to behold it threatens the sanity.

Simone looked down at the urn in her hands. True, it was heavier than she'd expected, but considering all that it held, lighter than it should have been, too. An entire life was contained inside it. A life now reduced to ash and bone.

Instead of aggressively forcing yourself into a boot-camp mentality about change, give your mind permission to make the leaps on its own schedule, in its own time.

What is one small step I could take to improve my health (or relationships, or career, or any other area)?

If a society does not wish to change, it cannot be reformed through the educational system.

it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

It is a matter of going beyond the comfort of your current realities and into the realm of new possibilities for your life.

LEARN… UNLEARN… RELEARN

I would like to be part of this unprecedented evolution of humanity, the era where humans work purely with their minds and not with their bodies.

Those days are long gone.

The world is passing them by.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world." ? Vladimir Ilich Lenin

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." ? Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Usually, city lights and smog block the stars, but last night a full moon shone overhead. Gazing upward, I had a vision of pockets of poverty shrinking like puddles in the sun.