Quotes About Transformation

Lasting change is something planted by example and nurtured in each individual heart.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Sve Crkve stoje danas u našem postmodernom krajoliku poput stabala bez liš?a.

Nada tiene que quedarse como está. Si un dogma no funciona, por muy fuerte e inamovible que parezca, siempre puede uno desecharlo y plantear algo distinto.

We could have looked instead at what does work: changing the environment in specific ways.

this change has caused another transformation—in how people see the police. "I don't think [people in poor neighborhoods] see the police now as enemies.

It's not so much what happens in those fifteen minutes—Rachel has come to feel that "you're planting seeds during the meditation, [and] it flowers spontaneously during your day, and your life.

I was feeling so lost and depressed, but now, okay … I am a fighter. I feel good. You come out of your corner crying, and you start to fight." She blew her smoke away from me, into the air. "It changes you," she said. "You feel strong then.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Du bist am Ende was du bist.

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

No one can walk beneath palm trees with impunity, and ideas are sure to change in a land where elephants and tigers are at home.

When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for the ball, how very different it all is! It is all over, all of it! There is not a hint of the world that once was, not one bulse-beat of those past emotions. I feel like a ghost returning to the burnt-out ruins of the castle he built in his prime as a prince, which he adorned with magnificent splendours and then, on his deathbed, but full of hope, left to his beloved son

Und zuletzt, des Lichts begierig, Bist du Schmetterling verbrannt

A?açlar?n sarar?p dökülen yapraklar? gibi, benim de ya?ant?m sarar?p dökülüyor.

Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever.