Quotes About Transformation

All women on earth-and men too, for that matter-hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, and gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

happy, she could change ice crystals into flowers. When she was sad or angry—as she was now—she could turn dark clouds into swarms of biting insects.

the four phases of a woman's life are the same

And sometimes, God asks us to wrestle with the unfamiliar until it becomes our new familiar. Until we can breathe freely in that new place.

You are one of the wealthiest women of the city, Gabriella.' I smiled. Because like, two months ago, I was begging Mom to borrow thirty bucks for a sweater. Rich. I could get into that.

They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form.

We are changed by the things we experience. The big things, the small things have their impact and can't be undone. To judge those experiences, to hate the things that have happened to us is to hate who we've become because of them.

Choices turned to consequences, opinions turned to judgments, and admiration turned to envy. Envy curdled everything, like lemon in milk.

The first law states that energy can change form but cannot be created or destroyed." "Okay." "So, we—our bodies, our spirits or whatever—it's pure energy. To me, that means we have always been here, and we always will be, just taking different forms.

A word I read comes to mind: solastalgia, a miserable tangle of solace, desolation, and nostalgia. Glenn Albrecht defines it as the distress of seeing a familiar environment bitterly transformed by drought, fire, flood, war.

It is not the strongest among us who survive. Nor is it the most intelligent. It is those among us who are the most adaptable to change.

What had amazed him, what amazed him still, even after all these years, was how quickly he'd stepped out of himself. He'd slipped off every convention and moral that had defined him, a great cowl that fell to the floor with the unfastening of a single closure. The person beneath it was someone he barely recognized.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, For where I am closed, I am false. Rainer Maria Rilke

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Glenn Albrecht defines it as the distress of seeing a familiar environment bitterly transformed by drought, fire, flood, war. But it describes perfectly

I see all the kids—the popular ones, the brains, the jocks, the punks, the burnouts. They are not who they will become. This moment, teenage life, it feels like the whole universe, but it's only a millisecond.

Lisi Harrison

I clung to my belief the same way that Anastasia clung to hers. The idea that love and patience were enough to rid Christian of his vices and turn him into the man that he wasn't—the man she wanted him to be—was just as naive.

This page is is a time machine, a teleporter, a magic wand. With it you can create a world. Give life. Take it away.

He called himself chief among sinners yet proclaimed himself made new in Christ.

The tail of Emily Windsnapeveryone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.

All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!