Quotes About Transformation

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

WHAT HAPPENED TO IGGY ONCE HE GOT HOME

It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you've looked long neough, you realise the blank wastes of sand and rock are teemming with life. Just as you can keep looking at a person and suddenly realise that the way you see them has completely changed: from being a stranger, they've gradually revealed themselves as someone with a wealth of complexities and surprising subtleties that you're growing to love.

Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.

Charles Duhigg, in The Power of Habit, offers the golden rule of habit change—that the best way to deal with a habit is to respect the habit loop: "To change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

When it comes to quitting, the most painful thing to quit is who you are.

thinking in bets is not a miracle cure. Thinking in bets won't make self-serving bias disappear or motivated reasoning vanish into thin air. But it will make those things better. And a little bit better is all we need to transform our lives.

Et rien ne peut faire que ce qui a été vécu dans un monde, celui d'avant 1968, et condamné par les règles de ce monde, puisse changer radicalement de sens dans un autre monde. Cela reste un événement sexuel singulier, dont la honte est insoluble dans la doxa du nouveau siècle.

Once I start trying out the text, once it appears before me in public characters, I shall be through with innocence.

In my student bathroom, I had given birth to both life and death.

il y a un chimpanzé sur l'autel, il se révèle ensuite être un ours.

Hvilke historier er det vi forteller om oss selv? Hvilke øyeblikk var det som endret vårt fundament? Ernaux tar oss med 60 år tilbake og forsøker å gi ord til hva en enkelt hendelse kan gjøre med en liv. Hun skriver sterkt om makt, skam og seksualitet, og opphever skillet mellom det private og det menneskelige.

Instantanément, il lui est venu un air de curiosité et de jouissance, comme s'il me voyait les jambes écartées, le sexe offert. Peut-être trouvait-il aussi son plaisir dans la subite transformation de la bonne étudiante d'hier en fille aux abois.

Je dis souvent « nous » maintenant, parce que j'ai longtemps pensé de cette façon et je ne sais pas quand j'ai cessé de le faire.

Parfois des ivrognes notoires se rachetaient par un beau jardin cultivé entre deux cuites.

Est-ce que le prince Charles était réel pour moi ? Dîner royal, musique. Je pensais que cette « entente cordiale » du vieux monde serait peut-être un jour balayée par d'autres forces. Je songeais à l'URSS, à la Chine. Peut-être étions-nous semblables hier soir à ces gens de 1913 ou de 1938, dans ces mêmes salons dorés.

Elle était inhérente à sa présence à lui dans ma vie, qu'il avait transformée en un étrange et continuel palimpseste.

Den mand der vendte tilbage den aften, er ikke længere den samme som ham jeg gik rundt med indeni gennem det år hvor han var her, og derefter mens jeg skrev. Den mand kommer jeg aldrig til at se igen. Ikke desto mindre er det denne uvirkelige, næsten ikke eksisterende tilbagevenden der giver min lidenskab den sande mening. Som er at være uden mening - og i to år at have været den mest voldsomme og mest uforklarlige virkelighed.

significant professional growth without personal transformation is impossible.

We often respond to today's world with yesterday's adaptations. (quoting Dan Fesster)

And the day came when the need to remain closed became more painful than the risk to open. ANONYMOUS

Give up being safe and your power chakra will awaken more quickly.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.