Quotes About Transformation

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

Everything can be undone, including success.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

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La felicidad hace buenos hasta a los malvados.

La joie pour les cÅ"urs qui ont longtemps souffert est pareille à la rosée pour la terre desséchée par le soleil: cÅ"ur et terre absorbent cette pluie bienfaisante qui tombe sur eux, et rien n'en apparaît au dehors.

I am the spectre of an unfortunate man whom you locked up in the dungeons of the Château d'If. When this spectre finally emerged from its tomb, God put on it the mask of the Count of Monte Cristo and showered it with diamonds and gold so that you should not recognize it until today.

Time follows its course carrying events with it; what is obscure one evening, is often revealed the next.

But I lay aside that pride before God, who has taken me from nothing to make me what I am

Es necesario que la naturaleza vencida muera sobre el campo de batalla, es preciso que la realidad suceda al sueño, y entonces es el sueño el que domina absolutamente, y la vida se hace sueño y el sueño se hace vida.

I separated the fat from the meat served to me, melted it, and so made oil—here is my lamp." So saying, the abbe exhibited a sort of torch very similar to those used in public illuminations.

What, have I been on the wrong road for the past ten years? What, can it be that in a single hour the architect can become convinced that the work into which he has put all his hopes was, if not impossible, then sacriligeous?

Let the rich man rediscover the poor one; the free man the pisoner; and the resurrected man the corpse.

Luego todo parecía que se confundiese y se borrase a su vista, como las últimas sombras de una linterna mágica que se apaga, hallándose de nuevo en la habitación de las estatuas, iluminada totalmente por una de esas lámparas antiguas de luz pálida, que en medio de la noche acompañan al sueño o a la voluptuosidad.

Here Edmond was to undergo another trial; he was to find out whether he could recognize himself, as he had not seen his own face for fourteen years. He had preserved a tolerably good remembrance of what the youth had been, and was now to find out what the man had become.

But I lay down that pride before God, who brought me out of nothingness to make me what I am.

Your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.

There are other things to fear, Monsieur,' Villefort said, 'apart from death, old age and madness. For example, apoplexy, that lightning bolt which strikes you down without destroying you, yet after which all is finished. You are still yourself, but you are no longer yourself: from a near-angel like Ariel you have become a dull mass which, like Caliban, is close to the beasts. As I said, in human language, this is quite simply called an apoplexy or stroke.

Su horizonte se iba ensanchando más y más, pero no ese horizonte sombrío y lleno de terrores en el que se arrastraba antes de su sueño, sino un horizonte azul, transparente y vasto, con todo lo que el mar tiene de tintas mágicas, con todo lo que el sol tiene de luz, y todo lo que la brisa tiene de perfumes.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.

the invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes;

Are ruins, then, already here?

Having destroyed an aristocratic society, we seem ready to go on living complacently amid the rubble forever.