Quotes About Transformation

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.

I have heard the summer dust crying to be born.

to Maxfield to get away from the crap I'd put up with all my life in lousy schools. I wasn't going to let a couple

Whew," he said. "You clean up good . You don't look like the same girl." She frowned right before she laughed. "Do women usually thank you for saying things like that?

how many episodes of being "not yourself" do you get before people figure out this is who you really are?

I'm afraid my former life could sabotage the abundant future Jesus promised those of us who put our hope in Him.

I know as well as you do that only the individual has the key to change themselves. It's buried deep inside each and every one of us and although someone else can help us to find the key, we're the only ones who can use it.

I remember being twenty-one and thinking that my personality was a solid thing, that me was set in stone, that I would always feel what I felt and believe what I believed. But now I know that me is fluid and shape-changing.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

I've always known we were two puzzle pieces that fit together in a hollow that is our pain. There was a time when I was certain we were too damaged not to destroy each other. Now I think we are saving each other.

I knew my life would forever be divided into Before and After. I didn't

Connolly had performed a makeover in reverse, to look like Bennie.

breasts had grown to gargantuan proportions

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love.

But why bother trying to turn a monkey into a goat?

Only through pain will you have beauty. Only through suffering will you find peace. I wrap, I bind, but you will have the reward.

One day—and it only takes one moment to change your life forever—

it was like watching a silk worm's death-tender and subtle.

When you're held underwater, you think only of air. I remember how I felt about Shanghai in the days after our lives changed - how streets that had once seemed exciting suddenly stank of nightsoil, how beautiful women suddenly were nothing more than girls with three holes, how all the money and prosperity suddenly rendered everything forlon, dissolute and futile. The way I see Los Angeles and Chinatown during these difficult and frightening days couldn't be more different.

The lotus symbolizes purity, because it rises out of the mud but looks pristine.

You look at me now and see an old face, but once I was beautiful.

the birth of the twins and what happened to them, although traditional, has transformed me as irreversibly as soaking cloth in a vat of dye.

I thought I could use idealism to solve my inner conflicts, but in healing my inner conflicts I destroyed my idealism.