Quotes About Transformation

Rich is not writing about transcending this world... But about transforming it. Here, and now. And what hope do we have of changing the world if we can't change our sorry-ass selves? As wisdom tends to do, the poem reveals something very simple that's been here all along: We are not the center of everything. But we are a part of everything.

My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been.

Dicen que el dolor adopta muchas formas, incluyendo la ausencia del dolor.

You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.

You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.

things had once stood between them. That had gone for ever, she knew, and in its place there was a terrible sense of loss that sometimes threatened to overwhelm

America, the plum blossoms are falling.

Allen Carr saved my life.

I closed my mind, prayed it wouldn't be me, kept my head firmly in the sand and hoped that I would wake up one morning with no desire to smoke.

So just relax, keep your mind open, and accept the feeling for what it is: the Little Monster fading away. In this frame of mind, these become moments of real pleasure rather than moments of struggle.

Try to perceive yourself as a nonsmoker sees you

Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute.

Who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish.

You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were a sunflower!

Mine was the Benjamin Button of careers; age and status had both gone backward. It definitely took some getting used to.

The great growling engine of change – technology.

The world of today is as different from the world in which i was born as that world was from julius ceasar's . I was born in the middle of human history , to date roughly . Almost as much as happened since i was born as happened before.

Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they had endured long hours in the grey English winter or freezing American climes, for this that they had worked and planned and worked extra hours/ The horrible feelings of stress, tension, anger and frustration that coursed through their veins every day almost unnoticed began to fade.

ONE OF THE REASONS I'm good at being a ghostwriter is that I've been a chameleon for as long as I can remember. I become whatever people want me to be. It's almost effortless now—sussing out what others want or need and then transforming. Who am I, truly? I have no idea.

For the moment she was caught between the two worlds, neither one thing nor another. She would be sorry to let the former depart and yet she was longing for the latter to arrive: a new name and with it a new world and with it a new life.

You are like a garbage man, what will you do with my life story? Para kang nangangalakal ng basura!

It is one thing to know the past, but knowing what to do with it is something else. Our aim should be to be liberated from our history.

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

En tiempo de paz prepara la guerra" tiene un significado más profundo de lo que parece; quiere decir, no sólo que todas las cosas terrestres tienen un fin, que el cambio es la única ley inmutable y eterna, sino que el terreno de la paz está sembrado con las semillas de la guerra y favorece su germinación y crecimiento.