Quotes About Transformation

Aethon: Lived 80 Years a Man, 1 Year a Donkey, 1 Year a Sea Bass, 1 Year a Crow.

Every process must by law decay.

Though perhaps what has changed are the eyes that see it

Each time he returned, he looked slightly different, not merely older, but changed: a new accent, the cigarettes, three sharp knocks on the door. It was as if the city was entering his body and remaking it; he'd look at the low dark houses and wandering hens and farmers with their rope belts as if at film from another century.

At times he thought he was a wolf and at times he thought he was dead.

What a thing, half bird, half lizard, part one thing, part another, trapped forever between more perfect states.

We all go back to the mud. Until we rise again in ribbons of light.

Every second, walking those two hundred meters, is like leaping into very cold water, in that first instant when the body goes into shock, and everything you are, everything you call your life, disintegrates for an instant, and all you have around you is the water and the cold, your heart trying to send splinters through a block of ice.

A foot of steel looks as if it has been transformed into warm butter and gouged by the fingers of a child

I look up at John Paul's bedroom and think, If his bed is near the window, he can watch clouds soaring past the cupola - huge anvils of cumulus, pale and full of shoulders. The wind slowly tears them to shreds. Thin blades of light slip through and touch down everywhere.

A good journal entry—like a good song, or sketch, or photograph—ought to break up the habitual and lift away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart.

We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.

Then an astonishing thing occurred. In the early afternoon, the wind shifted

handsome as a child but something had happened to him at some time in his life so that, although he still wasn't ugly, he was curiously unattractive. It was as if he had become a bad photograph of himself.

It's amazing, really, the invisible process that can turn complete strangers into friends.

of those clothes.

His uncle, Ian Rider, had taken him on a tour of the Greek islands when he was nine years old and he couldn't help being reminded of it. It was as if nothing had changed. Except, of course, that he was now working for MI6, he was using a false name, his new best friend was a psychotic killer and he had less than a week to stop London from being destroyed.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

The blood of Christ has changed our standing before the sight of God. Our lives should demonstrate this glorious change before the sight of men.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

Providence College was the perfect place for me. It changed my life.

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.