Quotes About Transformation

In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad business man and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

Out with the cold, in with the woo.

The philosopher's stone which turned a mobster in Newport, Kentucky into a pillar of the community in Las Vegas, Nevada was "philanthropy.

The course of Logos in world history is dialectic, which means that every successful revolution leads to a civil war.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

At some point in this generation, "Take up your cross and follow me" changed into, "Come to Jesus and he'll make your life better.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.

Big streams from little fountains flow. Great oaks from little acorns grow;

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

Later in his life Gautama told the story of his decision in a sermon: 'And so it came about that, in the full freshness and enjoyment of my youth, in glowing health, my hair still black, and against the wishes of my weeping and imploring elders, I shaved my head and beard, dressed in coarse robes, and forsook the shelter of my home.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

The universe transformed into a Sunday afternoon . . . it is the very definition of ennui, and the end of the universe.

though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.

One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man, and the British Empire a different institution.

The Garden of Eden," pursued Mr. Emerson, still descending, "which you place in the past, is really yet to come. We shall enter it when we no longer despise our bodies.