Quotes About Transformation

If national interest comes before our common humanity, Dalia said, then there is no hope for redemption, there is no hope for healing, there is no hope for transformation, there is no hope for anything! One

By now the dream of immediate return had transformed into the reality of long-term struggle. The Palestinians had begun to understand that their return would not come about through diplomatic pressure.

Out of the pain, something new is growing.

an institution being willing to appoint someone (to transform the institution) is not the same thing as an institution being willing to be transformed (by someone who is appointed). An appointment can even be about an appearance: being given a diversity mandate might be how an institution appears willing to be transformed.

We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be. But it doesn't last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.

Omens change. Signs shift. Nothing is permanent.

The fat lady never really sings her last song. She only changes costumes and goes on to the next

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

When did I stop being me?

There's a moment in every book when the story and characters are finally there; they come to life, they're in control. They do things they're not supposed to do and become people they weren't meant to be. When I reach that place, it's magic. It's a kind of rapture.

She blamed the lack of real flowers on both weather and the war, and instead put four or five pieces of coal in glass bowls, added water, salt, and ammonia, before finally pouring a mixture of violet and blue ink over them. It was a complete mystery to me how this alchemy would result in anything resembling flowers, but they were "blooming" within the hour.

You are all to me, damsel. I see past what you did before, those things do not matter, because I see you as the woman you are now. Strong and beautiful, good and true. I love you, Amy, with all my heart.

no matter how bad things got, we could always make ourselves new again.

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.

This is the real meaning of the myth of Midas. It wasn't just that the king might starve to death through blind greed. It was that everything he touched lost its incomparable properties and turned into cold, hard cash.

It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing more that you'll have with Spinnerbait boy, or the guy after that, or the guy after that. Right? Yeah, I said, shrugging. You're right. He just stood there, looking at me, as if I had actually changed before his eyes. But this was the girl I'd been all along. I'd just hidden her well.

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

Told you. Everything sounds better in the car wash.