Quotes About Transformation

Não haverá borboletas se a vida não passar por longas e silenciosas metamorfoses

A imaginação é a artista que transforma o sofrimento em beleza. E a beleza torna a dor suportável.

Todo ser é um permanente deixar de ser. A vida acontece morrendo. Como o rio. Como a chama.

Escola é máquina de destruir crianças. Nas escolas as crianças são transformadas em adultos. É isto que todos os pais querem: que seus filhos sejam adultos produtivos. Como ficam felizes quando eles passam no vestibular!

I need new prayers, the old ones don't work anymore.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

And just as the functions of the bodily organs of plants and animals cannot be arbitrarily altered, so that, for example, one cannot at will hear with his eyes and see with his ears, so also one cannot at pleasure transform an organ of social oppression into an instrument for the liberation of the oppressed. The state can only be what it is: the defender of mass exploitation and social privileges, the creator of privileged classes and castes and of new monopolies.

Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)

We suffer because with every inner and outer suffering we eliminate one of our faults and become transformed into something better.

where we start in life doesn't define who we will become.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Not what thou art, nor what thou hast been, beholdeth God with His merciful eyes, but what thou wouldst be.

There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the sound box is stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and the belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire. The fog clears, and a new energy makes you run up the steps in front of you....

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.

To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with another dragon, the life-energy of the soul.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I'll be completely sober.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and become a seeker of hearts.

You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!