Quotes About Transformation

I wondered at all the ways abuse invents us

Maybe I could rewrite the fairy tale of my life, transforming every blow to the head, and every cut to the cunt, and every crucified doll into some kind of an initiation.

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they fill the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.—Barbara Bloom

Creative Visualization

Så kom en til meg. En med vakkert hjerte og et vakkert smil. Hun tok med i hånden og ledet meg ut porten. Hun sa: Du kan jo nesten ikke gå, gutten min – hva har de gjort med deg der inne? Og sammen gikk vi ut i verden, og skrittene mine skalv. Men jeg lærte å snakke – litt etter litt kom ordene tilbake i guttens munn. Og jeg fylte dem med sang. Og meget smerte lå skjult bak denne sangen.

One of our greatest advantages as human beings is that as long as we are alive, we can change.

Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.

Tragedy advanced by slow degrees; each new element that showed itself was in turn developed. Having passed through many changes, it found its natural form, and there it stopped.

Change in all things is sweet.

Psychotherapy is about an internal process of transformation. Gender therapy is not simply about surgery or hormones or even transition. It is not really about 'becoming' something as much as it is about allowing the false parts of the self to recede so that an authentic self can emerge.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

First, accept that life is hard, and that transforming our life—or our abilities, which amount to much the same thing—is very hard.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

It's time now to turn this mush into muscles

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Life itself means to separate and to be reunited, to change form and condition, to die and to be reborn. It is to act and to cease, to wait and to rest, and then to begin acting again, but in a different way. And there are always new thresholds to cross: the threshold of summer and winter, of season or a year, of a month of a night; the thresholds of birth, adolescence, maturity and old age; the threshold of death and that of the afterlife -- for those who believe in it.

alters/annihilates all pretensions of individual

Grace, combined with insight and choice, is the means of change."32

I do believe that humans are destined to be released for a more ennobling life

The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

Believe me, most people resist change, even when it promises to be for the better. But change will come, and if you acknowledge this simple but indisputable fact of life, and understand that you must adjust to all change, then you will have a head start.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions.