Quotes About Transformation

In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all.

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

I am having a hard time throwing off the skin that I pick and peel.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness.

To ACTIVATE  (A'CTIVATE)   v.a.[from active.]To make active. This word is perhaps used only by the author alleged. As snow and ice, especially being holpen, and their cold activated by nitre or salt, will turn water into ice, and that in a few hours; so it may be, it will turn wood or stiff clay into stone, in longer time.Bacon'sNat. History,No 83.

ALKAHEST  (A'LKAHEST)   n.s.A word used first by Paracelsus, and adopted by his followers, to signify an universal dissolvent, or liquour, which has the power of resolving all things into their first principles.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

Sir Charles has made a man of him, once more. His dress is as gay as ever; and, I dare say, he struts as much in it as ever, in company that knows not how he came by it. He reformed! — Bad habits are of the Jerusalem artichoke-kind; once planted, there is no getting them out of the ground.

This might have been the only thing that could have awakened you. Your whole life has been a growing from the outside, mastering the challenges that others have set for you. Now, finally, you might just be growing from inside yourself. It can be a whole new world, Roy, I know it. A whole new life." Eyes wet with tears, she said, "I'm going to love you even more, Roy, because I've been waiting a long time for you to begin.

The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.

Ere I was old? Ah woeful Ere, Which tells me, Youth's no longer here! O Youth! for years so many and sweet, 'Tis known that Thou and I were one, I'll think it but a fond conceit-- It cannot be that Thou art gone!

Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other.

Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.

A new Earth and new Heaven.

The Eucharist is the technology God uses for constructing a new society.

He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.

Sandor Ellix Katz

KRAUT PRAYER Eli Brown, Oakland, California Myriad beings beneath my sight, thank you for your transformations. May you nourish me as I nourish you. May you thrive in me as I thrive on the earth. In all the worlds may nourishment follow hunger as the echo follows the call.

Love was a word that poets and songwriters used. They vested the emotion with tremendous powers over the human heart and mind, but they were wrong. it didn't transform lives like the saccharine lyrics claimed it could.

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

Life is just the seeds of light.

Every pain be gold.

By changing my thinking patterns, I have somehow become able to excrete a hormone that douses anxiety instead of fuels it.