Quotes About Transformation

If you want to change your life - right now - there is nothing more powerful than changing what you believe!

One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Destruction before Creation.

When the mask of Darth Vader is removed, you see an unformed man, one who has not developed as a human individual. What you see is a strange and pitiful sort of undifferentiated face.

The wilderness] had caressed him, and—lo!—he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

His hair in falling seemed to have stuck to his chin, and had prospered in the new locality, for his beard hung down to his waist.

I said, irritated by his tone. There's no rest for me till she's out in the Indian Ocean and not much of it even then. He puffed at his cigar moodily, as if transformed. Yes. That's what it amounts to, he said in a musing tone. It was as if a ponderous curtain had rolled up disclosing an unexpected Captain Giles. But it was only for a moment, just the time to let him add, Precious little rest in life for anybody. Better not think of it.

He feels it himself, and says often that he is 'preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave...' while he waves his hand sadly at his butterflies.

It seems to me that all my life before that momentous day is infinitely remote, a fading memory of light-hearted youth, something on the other side of a shadow.

Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being?

Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.

Lord, lay me down as a stone and raise me up as a loaf!

El gradualismo —las escasas modificaciones en nuestro sistema político y económico— es inadecuado para la tarea que tenemos entre manos. Lo que se necesita son cambios drásticos

And just as a path that goes to a mountain does not cause the mountain, the path of practice leads us to this highest freedom, but does not cause it.

As we walk the way of awareness, we see that the deepest purpose we all have is to perfect the qualities of our heart and mind. The spiritual path transforms our consciousness, purifying it of greed, hatred, ignorance, fear, envy, jealousy—those forces that create suffering in us and in the world.

For a long time in my meditation practice I felt embarrassed and ashamed when I saw unwholesome states in my own mind, states like pride or jealousy, ill will or selfishness; and instead of examining them and working free of them, I would judge myself and dig the hole I was in even deeper.

Nothing at all can prevent the universal process of birth, growth, decay, and death.

I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.

Valakinek egyszer valamit csinálnia kellett. Minden áldozat b?nös, és minden b?nös áldozat is, de egyszer valakinek meg kellene már törni az öröklött szokásoknak ezt a tetves láncolatát, ami elÅ'bb-utóbb végveszélybe sodorja Å'ket.

this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety.

All change is for the worse.

It is uncommon for the same men who make a revolution also to secure it.

American literary culture proved to be less like an explosion that went off with the Revolution than a tender plant that required over fifty years of cultivation before it blossomed.