Quotes About Transformation

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

However, it is not a direct evocation of those emotions within himself which moves the listener but rather the way in which a great composer transforms universal emotions into art.

On the other hand, less rigorous conditions of imprisonment have sometimes proved fruitful. Being cut off from the distractions of ordinary life encourages the prisoner with creative potential to call upon the resources of his imagination. As we shall see, a variety of authors have begun writing in prison, where this has been allowed; or have passed through periods of spiritual and mental turmoil which have later found expression in their works.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Nothing is born, nothing dies.

Rien ne se cree, rien ne se perd

Jeff sensed that he'd risen, that he was no longer someone who could be inconsequentially ignored. He sensed, too, that he was perceived as an opportunist and a carpetbagger.

Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change. In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

Un grand voyage, c'est toute une vie vécue en quelques mois ou en quelques années.

Taking our knowledge to heart and really living it, however, can be difficult, as Seneca illustrated with a literally colourful analogy: 'Just as some dyes are readily absorbed by the wool, others only after repeated soaking and simmering, so there are some studies that show up well in our minds as soon as we have learned them; this one, though, must permeate us thoroughly. It must soak in, giving not just a tinge of color but a real deep dye, or it cannot deliver on any of its promises.

I'm doing a thousand new things in spite of myself," he said. "It's not easy, you know, to jump over your shadow.

Estoy haciendo mil cosas nuevas a pesar de mi mismo. No es fácil, ya sabes, saltar sobre `tu propia sombra.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

The transformation of charity into legal entitlement has produced donors without love and recipients without gratitude.

Todos somos madera, y el fuego es eterno.