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Quotes About Transformation

It is true that existing governments keep the masses in poverty, but this is because the masses do not think and act in a certain way. If the masses began to move forward
~ Wallace D. Wattles
No lea libros que le digan que el mundo está llegando a su fin, ni lea escritos de filósofos escandalizadores y pesimistas que dicen que vamos hacia el demonio. El mundo no va hacia el demonio; está yendo a Dios. Es una maravillosa transformación.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
If the masses begin to move forward as suggested in this book, neither governments nor industrial systems can check them; all systems must be modified to accommodate the forward movement.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
It is wonderful Becoming.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
~ Wallace Shawn
The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks
~ Wallace Stegner
We are fossils in the making.
~ Wallace Stegner
A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.
~ Wallace Stegner
Yet now, having held in grief and resentment, and evaded thinking too much about the episode that changed my life with the finality of an axe, here I am exalted by having made use of it, by having spilled my guts in public. We are strange creatures, and writers are stranger creatures than most.
~ Wallace Stegner
Civilizations grow and change and decline - they aren't remade.
~ Wallace Stegner
The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
~ Wallace Stevens
Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...
~ Wallace Stevens
The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches.
~ Wallace Stevens
They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.
~ Wallace Stevens
Sombre as fir trees, liquid cats Moved in the grass without a sound. They did not know the grass went round. The cats had cats and the grass turned gray And the world had worlds, ai, this-a-way: The grass turned green and the grass turned gray.
~ Wallace Stevens
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
~ Wallace Stevens
The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
~ Wallace Stevens
It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.
~ Wallace Stevens
With destruction comes renovation.
~ Wally Lamb
When this physical body is no more capable of functioning, energies do not die with it, but continue to take some other shape or form, which we call another life.
~ Walpola Rahula
When this physical body is no more capable of functioning, energies do not die with it, but continue to take some other shape or form, which we call another life. In a child all the physical, mental and intellectual faculties are tender and weak, but they have within them the potentiality of producing a full grown man. Physical and mental energies which constitute the so-called being have within themselves the power to take a new form, and grow gradually and gather force to the full.
~ Walpola Rahula
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,Out of the Ninth-month midnight.
~ Walt Whitman
I depart from materials,I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead.
~ Walt Whitman
God did not give you the Bible to make you a smarter sinner, but rather a holy saint. Application, not knowledge, pleases God.
~ Walter A. Henrichsen