Quotes About Transformation

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look, she said. No, David said. It changes the way you think.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty. -Tally Youngblood

Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies

Once we turn, it's new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty." Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. "Then dead pretty.

In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch.

Lace: Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire? Cal: Um, maybe?

peeps cant turn into anything smaller than what they are. where would the extra mass go

Turn them into summer lightning! When spirits injure and abuse us, Magic must step in to save us.

Behind me, field and meadow sleeping, I leave in deep, prophetic night, Within whose dread and holy keeping The better soul awakes to light. The wild desires no longer win us, The deeds of passion cease to chain; The love of Man revives within us, The love of God revives again.

Ah, woe! thy lips are chill, And still. How changed in fashion Thy passion! Who has done me this ill?

Abandoning the flatland ages past, And finding mountains much more to their taste, They toil in labyrinthine caverns, dense With gases that are metal's noble source; 10770 They separate, combine, test, trying to Discover things undreamt of hitherto. By spirit power, subtly, they construct Forms clear and crystalline, without defect; Then in the crystal's eternal silence peering, Perceive what in the upper world is occurring.

Aunque el mosto fermente de manera impredecible, al final tendrá que dar vino.

Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring.

E?itim göre göre bizler birer hiç olmu?uz.

I use no lengthened invocation: Here rustles one that soon will work my liberation.

Denn alles muß in Nichts zerfallen, wenn es im Sein beharren will.

o gün bugündür güne?, ay ve y?ld?zlar? kendi düzenine b?rakt?m, ne gündüz ne gece kald? benim için; bütün dünya çevremde yitip gidiyor.

Thus, book after book, the book of all books would that it was given to us so that we might try to enter there as into a second world, where we lose ourselves, enlighten ourselves, perfect ourselves.

And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled stranger on the dark earth.

Der Tod ist nur ein Trick der Natur, um viel Leben zu haben.

As long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled stranger on the dark earth.

Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix. When the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once.

Das Gebildete wird sogleich wieder ungebildet, und wir haben uns, wenn wir einigermaßen zum lebendigen Anschaun der Natur gelangen wollen, selbst so beweglich und bildsam zu erhalten, nach dem Beispiele mit dem sie uns vorgeht.

Every tree, every bush, is full of flowers; and one might wish himself transformed into a butterfly, to float about in this ocean of perfume, and find his whole existence in it.